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I tried saying and proving to people that gun control/infringement/deprivation of rights isn’t the proper solution for our nation, and that it actually makes it harder for innocent people to defend ourselves, easier for violent criminals to find their victims, and get away with whatever the violent criminals do, easier for foreign military, subversive or terrorist forces to attack, also indirectly encourages things like home-grown terrorism, official misconduct, corruption. It’d only incite more civil unrest among ALL sides involved. I also did try and will continue to suggest the following alternate solutions that would work but wouldn’t promote inequality or violate anybody’s right(s):-law enforcement reform through more patrols, fewer fishing expeditions on innocent folks, and more focus on catching people red handed in the commission of a crime.-More comprehensive reform, and this is a long 1. Reform such as shutting down and auctioning, or trimming some of the fat off government, such as all those excessively overlapping, redundant, often confusing, misled, competing, over-funded, under-staffed, improperly equipped and inefficient “ABC” agencies. Also, making sure cops and agents have their policies trimmed then newer, more responsible rules made, such as a REQUIREMENT to protect and serve, as well as indemnity and no firing for refusing to follow unlawful orders. Also, they should be trained in the fundamentals of CPR, 1st aid and fire management in case that’s needed before the already minimally-funded ambulance and Fire dept. services arrive. Fire dept’s and ambulance services should get more funding and should be consulted and/or instructed as to how to apply that funding for maximum practical affect. Still, all government employees should have basic 1st aid and fire management supplies. Departments and agencies related to law-enforcement should be issued more accurate and capable weapons such as full size 9mm pistols, 3 magazines and boxes of ammo, 1 with armor piercing ammunition, 1 with hollow point ammunition and 1 with FMJ target ammunition. Also, Level 3A body armor vests should be issued to all employees of the police departments mandatory. Departments, agencies and other governmental employees related to emergency response or security should be issued concealable level IIA body armor, 1 sub-compact .380ACP pistol with 2 single column magazines or a snub-nose .38 Special revolver with spare moon clip, and the corresponding box of standard velocity hollow point ammunition at the employee’s discretion. Certain employees like Park Rangers and key DNR personnel should also be issued a long gun such as an AR-15, or semi-auto .12GA shotgun, 1 spare magazine, and a corresponding box of soft point or lead slug ammunition respectively, at the employee’s discretion. Civilian government organizations should be armed those ways. Military organizations and private persons should be free to select whatever weaponry works best for them and their much more diverse/complicated possible applications. Employees should also be free to bring their own backup weaponry and, for undercover work, just not at public expense, unless personal vehicles are fitted with approved plates if applicable. Departments should be going back to the cheaper, more reliable lightly armored sedans rather than sports cars, so many publicly funded undercover/personal vehicles, and those helicopters, APCs and boats. Cops, agents and similar civilian persons and organizations aren’t the National Guard, Air Guard or Coast Guard, let alone the standing military. Private persons who don’t receive public funding for government issued weapons, vehicles and other equipment should not be subject to the strict regulations that either the civilian or military organizations and personnel are or should be subject to. We all have our own varying income/revenue/funding sources and purposes. Besides, 1 surveillance/surplus recon drone per county should be good enough for such purposes that helicopters are often used for, APC’s are unnecessary when the cops already outnumber the folks who possess very expensive weaponry capable of going through cop car armor, and boat rental is a lot cheaper if you need to drag the river for evidence. Cars are also more fuel efficient and longer range during rare or non-existent boat chases near rivers. Drones are cheaper in every way and require less man-power. FFA and Guard jurisdiction is different, so you won’t find police helicopters pulling over/down other pilots anyway. All non-standard weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other equipment owned by the department and ammunition should be auctioned off with a minimum reserve of half the cost paid for the equipment. All non-standard weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other equipment owned by the department/other organization should be auctioned off with a minimum reserve of half the cost paid for the equipment in order to assist with funding all these reforms and more. Also, if there are bicycle lanes/overpasses/underpasses, there should also be police lanes for that optimal/safe 60MPH/1 mile per minute response time, that a cop at any time is 1 minute or less from any other patrolling cop in any city with a police department, so response time for 1-4 officers could be brought down to around 32 seconds, to improve response times especially in cases some people who choose to remain unarmed and unprepared to adequately defend themselves need assistance ASAP, and to create more jobs in law enforcement, even if it’s just putting reserve officers to work so they actually earn those benefits, too. The people should be allowed to vote whether or not we want or need some of those reforms in our particular areas, though. In any case, law enforcement reform is crucial to lowering crime rates, and is 1 thing the government can do without violating anybody’s rights. Everybody knows the cops currently arrive too late, are way too militarized for their jobs, and about the unreasonable amount of discretion and exceptions to the laws they get over other people. The government currently has too much power and gets more protection from the laws they make than the people who vote them into office, even when they appoint others who do things wrong. Something can be done to curb those indiscretions, make cops (plus other officials/government employees/contractors) good for society again.-Congressional and Judicial decisions/repeals/bills. There should be harsher penalties for violent criminals, option to either be transported to a psych unit or kept at the jail for holding/evaluation after booking at the victim’s, arresting officer’s, Sheriff Department’s or suspect’s discretion. All current gun control and related regulations, policies, procedures and civil agreements/orders should be lifted/repealed/stricken. We should make it easier for innocent people to get weaponry. We should not continue to punish people after they serve their time, because that’s a social justice issue, not a lawful legal one. So, punish people fairly on a case by case basis, not presume to violate anybody’s rights. If criminals get out and go right back to a life of violent crime, if they have guns, too, it makes it easier to justify killing them in self-defense, or natural selection and lowering crime rates in the most effective and efficient ways. Good, armed people vastly outnumber the violent criminals and insane. All we need to do is reform how we think of the relationship between freedom and security, as well as reform a few other systems as I’ve also went into some detail about in this answer. Look, we need more reasonable and/or less restrictive self-defense laws nation-wide, too. There should also be more laws regulating and clarifying arrests by private persons, and procedures should be established to allow private persons to obtain warrants. On a fundamental and Constitutional level, we should ultimately acknowledge and base our reforms with the fact that private persons should enjoy the same legal protections as cops or anybody else. Cops who are already compensated fairly if not generously to do a much more dangerous and difficult job than say, flipping burgers, operating a cash register, clerical or presentation jobs, some of those the government can and should continue to regulate the salaries of, regulate better and more efficiently, but less dangerous than things like electrical engineering, waste-management and combat-related military positions which are at least somewhat also under government control, and get about the same pay or less as/than cops and agents. The standard salaries that can be regulated should be changed for different government bodies and types of work. The budget cap for that spending should not increase higher than inflation, but should be balanced and distributed more fairly. There should be no more paid leave for cops involved in a criminal investigation or case, unless commercial and private employers are required to grant employees/private persons leave, in a similar manner for similar reasons, rather than fire employees. gun safety education should be as common as sex education in schools, that ethics classes should be as common as psychology classes, and that schools should stop penalizing kids for defending themselves against bullies who act in threatening or assaultive manner toward the intended victims. Security cameras exist in schools now and it’s pretty easy to determine who probably initiated the use of force, right?-Executive power. While Congress is busy deciding whether or not to do those right, sensible, responsible, lawful and most importantly Constitutional things, executive orders can be made to tell employees under the executive branch such as the Police, Guards and schools, some things to do, some things not to do, some rewards and disciplinary action, respectively. The executive branch heads, like Mayors, Governors and the President, should start taking more of a role and responsibility for running things under their jurisdiction. Congress and the Courts can do what they want regarding their own branches and take as long as they need or want to. Executive orders are faster than bills and trials, though, and not much can happen, good or bad, if all 3 branches don’t come to new deals about certain issues, then.-Truly uniting, even if we do so indirectly. Working together, or at least doing what we can as people, and this is a long 1, too. Ultimately, each and every person only has control over him/herself, and some influence in politics. Each and every person also has certain inalienable rights, has and should respect the equality, individualism and general validity of others. It’s wrong to lord our political beliefs over others in any way that’d violate the rights of anybody. Look, you’re not going to take my guns or have officials take those from me, any more than I’m going to shut you up or have somebody shut you up. There’d be more hell to pay if either side of a disagreement took that kind of action or had it taken for much longer, or to an escalated degree. Let’s keep our disagreements civil and between us. Let’s not use our disagreements to violate the rights of each other, or have officials violate each other’s rights for either of us, okay? Still, there are things we can, and in my opinion, should do. While the government is taking so long to to the right things or at least stop doing the wrong things so often/regularly, each and every one of us can do our part, whether it seems like we’re stuck or if we get the opportunity, the power to do some good or stop some bad. For example, I’m an average everyday normal guy, but I’ve personal experience to show that change, gun safety and preserving lives can happen without violating anybody’s rights. I repeatedly but occasionally defended myself against a gang who hit the wrong apartment, started turning their sights on me for defending myself, but eventually I followed some of them and helped get many of the surviving thugs out of that life (if only for a short time), when they probably thought they went to actually lay low in their rotten-egg-smelling drug den. That time I helped make a city a bit safer back when there were still pay phones you could anonymously tip from. In the end there were only maybe 2 gangsters left in that gang in that part of town, and maybe 2 associates. Shortly after they tried to work with the cops to frame me up for something I didn’t do, I was let go and I heard they were either killed with the rest of that gang in a gang war or something, went solo, or got out of that life. The leader of that gang, 1 of the 2 gangsters left, is certainly dead, another gangster I killed in self-defense before the conclusion of that whole situation, the other was probably deported and at least 1 other is in prison. Needless to say, I was worn out for a while and moved to a smaller town where there’s not much violent crime and the “gangs” are always posers who talk a lot, might burglarize or beat somebody up over a bad or upcoming meth or marijuana deal, or bikers who don’t rob people but beat up people who are in rival biker gangs and basically have friendly little clubs they call gangs. Basically, the gangs in this town don’t adversely affect this town. They basically beat up or steal from other criminals, or people who are gullible enough to leave their doors unlocked or let them into their homes and don’t fight back. Anyway, another time, in another town, I was on my bicycle, but detoured from going to pick up some groceries to ask about a building that was on fire. After finding out the fire dept that was only about 2 blocks away hadn’t arrived and it’d already been 15 minutes, I took a quick peek inside and saw the fire wasn’t near a gas appliance. I then asked the people outside if I could try to put it out. Nobody said no, and almost everybody there looked like they were in shock or something, so I just went in and got to work. Nobody seemed to want to stop me so I guessed trespassing wasn’t an issue. A few other people even came in and joined me, making the progress much faster and saving most of the property from fire damage. I ruined my duffel bag, my shirt and singed my eyebrows, plus the store closed so I later had to eat Ramen. Still, I helped save a stranger’s apartment, maybe the neighboring apartment and 1 of the neighboring buildings, plus for some reason more women were chasing me for the next few months or so. It also helped restore my faith in humanity. That’s about the time I started losing faith in government, though. The fire dept. didn’t arrive, and an officer arrived with a fire extinguisher a couple minutes AFTER the fire was out. He hurried up to look like he was doing something, then. My point is that everybody has the power to change on some level, to do some good, the government may or may not do it for you and might even penalize you for it with the way things are lately, but when people are encouraged and make the choices not to be bystanders in our own lives and in any disasters we might witness and could do some things about, good things can happen. If this applies, take control of your own life and please don’t focus so much on what other people are doing if it wouldn’t do any harm or violate your rights.Sometimes you just have to make your own change if you want to see change happen. Government, as it is for the most part right now, does more harm than good when it’s asked to do something. I still believe every problem has a solution, almost everybody has the capacity to change for the better, every governing body has the capacity to change if they’re convinced in just the right way to do so, and that we can all work independently or together to stop violent crime, fires, other things, and to improve society in general. I would like to see people take back control of their own lives, for politicians to start feeling like they have to work for the votes of the people, not just their biggest donors. I’d also like to do more to help if I can, too. Still, I’m only half joking when I say that, if, by some freak chance I’m written in as a no-party candidate, elected as the next Mayor or Councilman of Manchester, IA, the Governor or a Congressman of Iowa, it’d be great to do more to help, and to actually get paid a salary and benefits for it, too. You can help, too. We all can in that way, especially in offices that are won by popular vote. Look, if Deez Nuts, a child pulling a prank, can almost win the Presidency, then surely somebody like you or me could get into political office with serious, low-budget, grassroots campaigns. Something that might help, let’s do like those 20 Democrats VS those 2 Republicans and 2 3rd Party candidates. Let’s work directly/indirectly, independently/together, cloud the airwaves over all of the currently mainstream candidates with all our own private campaigns and attack ads for whatever offices you’d like, in your dreams, as a joke, any serious campaign or whatever reason/purpose seems best. I only ask that you give it a good try because we don’t need the same old already well-off snake-oil salesmen/snakes running our country, telling us what to do, what not to do, while they maintain certain unfair or unlawful perks and privileges for themselves. How much does an ad in the news-paper online or while photo/video-bombing a live political broadcast, maybe crashing a political rally near you really cost, anyway? More competition means more choices and that better choices can be made. Apathy is for defeatists, the unmotivated, evil, and/or for those who simply enjoy benefiting from a system at the unfair/unlawful expense of others. Taking action to even try to make things right in the right ways shows strength of character, good will, independence, patriotism, self-respect, respect of others, respectability and/or at least the start of great leadership skills, a more lucrative, good and stable plan/job. Just a rhetorical question, now, what kind of person are you, are you happy and is that the person you want to be, or think you should be? Anyway, sometimes what’s reasonable, right and lawful isn’t easy. Still, how has a majority of people either supporting the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Tea Party been working for them, you, and for this constitutional, partially democratic republic, lately? Maybe it’s time for a real change for the better with results that’d benefit everybody on all “sides” in the UNITED States of America. We owe it to ourselves, our allies and (in much different ways) our enemies, to make ourselves and our country better, stronger, more reasonable, fair, equal, free, secure, balanced and consistent.Bottom line, it takes responsible people to make responsible choices to take responsible action. Any action should also be reasonable and ultimately, Constitutional. By reasonable, responsible and Constitutional, I don’t mean the political rhetoric/legal fiction/well-funded/over-used/incorrectly used buzz words. I mean those literally, like you can look those words up in any dictionary, or read the corresponding document for, not as words of innuendo used as political tools used by persons, groups, and/or organizations only to presume and signal a moral high ground over another, ultimately to push any particular political agendas that’d hurt some people and give unfair advantages to some other people. What’s responsible isn’t always popular, and that’s why neither most gun control proponents or most pro-gun people seem to be capable of doing anything responsible about really solving the problem of violent crime at this time. If we fix that, then we can fix more. By the way, I happen to be a gun owner with no group, a Constitutional fundamentalist, an avid supporter of gun rights, opponent of gun control, and this has been my answer to your deceptively complicated question. I’ve been posting in both the anti-gun and pro-gun groups about these issues, too.