Nothing is off the table--No idea is too stupid to consider

[branford]

156. It's called compromise.

That means each side gives up something. Note that demanding draconian gun control and settling for a less gun control is not compromise, it's conditional surrender. Given that the current status quo strongly favors gun rights and makes further national restrictions near impossible, gun control advocates are in a much weaker position with less leverage, and thus will have to give more.

My personal suggestion is an objective and thorough national training and safety and standard protocol for the purchase and carry of concealed firearms, with a national license, including the current NICS background check system with additional funds for improvements in data collection and coordination, including universal background checks with sufficient safeguards against anything close to a national registration list. If all objective background and training criteria are met, licenses will be issues under a "shall issue" mandate. No "may issue" allowed. Heck, I would even throw in prohibitions against open carry in certain areas, with clear exceptions for obvious matters like hunting, sport, and basic transport, as well as stricter federal firearm crime sentences, including improved laws against straw purchases.

In return, I would want a national concealed carry reciprocity system similar to drivers' licenses. There must be full preemption of all state and local gun ordinances. If the national license is good in Texas and Oklahoma, it's also good in New York and California, including all cities and localities.

I would note that the problem of gun violence will never be "solved." We are a heterogeneous and free nation with substantial due process and similar rights, there are over 350 million firearms in circulation, and crime and mental illness is not going away anytime soon. The problem, at best, can be reasonably managed and improved.