@DaveHiggins That would seem the core of our disagreement then, while i agree the US is only getting more resistant to change as a whole, the idea 'new approaches' will find better luck is at best misinterpreting people that demand no change but different outcomes, and at worst agreeing to concede every argument to the group who sticks it's heels in. Any good faith approach requires that from all parties.

@Ashrand I'm coming at this from decades of practising law: sometimes a dispute had a clear right and wrong or was one must get less for the other to have more; but sometimes understanding what people really wanted rather than what they said they wanted revealed a mutually beneficial consensus.

So, I'm not ready to give up on there being at least part of a solution in considering why pro-gun-freedom people demand no change.

@DaveHiggins I can see that, it's the high road to take for sure and i respect your position on that basis, i'm also aware that the reasons for opposition to gun control have much more to do with contrarianism and an absolutist position on ownership than a considered opinion and therefore that a mutually beneficial consensus isn't a matter of compromise or contextualization.
For what it's worth i hope you're right, but as with my stance on guns the evidence leads me to think otherwise

@Ashrand Much rather have an honest disagreement than a knee-jerk consensus, so likewise.

If the majority of the gun dispute is from embedded belief and not changeable opinion - and I agree that will be the reason for at least some of it - then hopefully pushing the debate from every side we can will reduce the number of absolutists in the next generation enough to allow debate to work.

Or the youth action will bring us all a pleasant surprise in a couple of months.

@DaveHiggins Amen to that final point! And in any other case it's good to be reminded i'm not with the people unwilling to find a way forward with compromise.