State's law of preemption hobbles cities' attempt to address gun violence

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47. I don't see this as an unsolvable problem.

Reasonable men come up with reasonable solutions. The issue for gun owners is freedom, civil rights, RKBA. The issue for the rest is public safety. A very tiny minority wants to eliminate all guns from society - that's the reality.
Let the state have limited preemption, including safe transportation through gun-free zones. With today's technology, it would be very easy to keep an updated map defining all gun-free zones. If your average GPS can tell you where every PizzaHut and Starbucks is, they can sure as hell tell you where you are allowed, or not allowed to sport your weapons. This isn't rocket science and really doesn't need to be a divisive issue. We have a huge country. Let people choose how they want to live.
I have lived in the hills of West Virginia and loved waking up to the sounds of hunters in the woods. I have also lived on the lower east side of NYC and did not enjoy waking up to the sounds of Saturday night specials being fired in the neighborhood.