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Alan,
Your last paragraph and others seem to suppose that gun control is a binary debate in the US. Just because there is extremism on both ends doesn't mean that every voter concerned with violence wants to ban everything or that every 2a defender supports personally owned nukes.
It doesn't make sense to do everything as if the extremists are the only people you have to worry about. In fact, it's pointless and damaging to us to have to include the crazies on either side as the ones who own the debate. They don't - most voters across the board find extremists distasteful.
An awful lot of people understand the real pont of 2a, they just don't want to see dead kids on the news so much. Those are the people that would love to side with a gun rights law that at least addresses their fear instead of pretending the Constitution is a suicide pact championed by nut jobs.
So can we talk to that huge group of voters in the center, or do we have to continue to fight a war against the 1% on the extreme left to make the 1% on the extreme right happy, while losing all of the important votes?
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