Gabby Giffords Gun Violence Initiative

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"Reasonable". I don't think that word means what you think it means.

It does, and your comments here seem to indicate that you don't care to show any respect for reasonable people who disagree with you, which is what I postulated earlier. Let's just admit it at this point and move on.

Concealed carry is now legal in almost every state in the USA.

And that raises the risks, not lower them, even if you disagree with it.

Civilian permit-holders, as a group, tend to misuse their firearms at a lower rate than trained, sworn law enforcement officers.

Did the NRA teach you to say that? Our society deliberately asks law enforcement officers to put themselves in situations where they are subject to scrutiny regarding their gun use orders of magnitude more often than others.

Can you provide the evidence behind that risk assessment so we can all test whether it's reasonable?

Why should I do so much work to dig out the contrary studies, and copy and paste them into the thread, when you'll only disagree with the conclusions? None of the gun advocates in this thread have shown any sincere interest whatsoever in viewing anything from the lens of the reasonable people who disagree with them. There hasn't been any indication of any sincere interest in learning why we support the proposals of folks like the Brady Campaign. Yet you are trying to make it sound like there is. That's pretty a nasty deception you're trying to perpetrate there.

Your George Zimmerman reference is insulting

I think the insults have been flowing freely from those who oppose gun control in this thread, so any claims of affront in the other direction, at this point in the thread, is ridiculous. How about everyone start respecting perspectives that they disagree with? As I've offered quite a number of times before, let's be reasonable people agreeing to disagree. I disagree with you but haven't insinuated that your preference is unreasonable - just that it is just your preferred way of looking at the issue, and a preference we don't share - so don't insinuate that we who disagree with you aren't reasonable. It's patently and inexcusably offensive on your part to do so, and I think I and others have been exceedingly patient with the insults that have been liberally and scurrilously thrown our way.