As many here know, I have commented on this issue frequently and presented what I consider fair and reasonable controls. Federally universal registration. No permit until background check complete not lasting more than thirty days; after that the purchase is legal. All gun sales to be registered, including gun shows, grandfathering, and the internet. No assault-type weapons and magazines limited to ten rounds. Felons who have successfully completed their probation and have no record of violence can buy a gun. People with a record of violence that have a restraining order cannot own a gun. Mentally ill people with a record of violence cannot own a gun. An agency well-funded and well-staffed to do background checks. Local law enforcement's easy access to lodge concerns and complaints with the Federal government, with a branch of the Federal agency specifically dedicated to investigate. Any known member of a Hate Group that has made violent threats against the government or a certain group of people cannot own a gun.

Have you bothered to look up our gun violence as compared to other First World countries. Do so and be appalled, well, hopefully.

"Higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with higher rates of violent crime." States with the lowest rates of firearm ownership (Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, California, Florida, Illinois, and Maryland) had significantly lower rates of firearm-related assault and robbery, firearm homicide, and overall homicide.

States with the highest gun-ownership levels (Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Arizona, West Virginia, North Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi, and Alabama), meanwhile, had 6.8 times the rate of firearm assaults, 2.8 times the rate of firearm homicides, and twice the rate of overall homicides than states with the lowest gun-ownership levels. https://www.thetrace.org/2015/06/new-study-is-latest-to-find-that-higher-rates-of-gun-ownership-lead-to-higher-rates-of-violent-crime/

More guns equal more death in every city and every state? That should be easy enough to fact-check. "Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide," David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, wrote in Private Guns, Public Health. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/8/9870240/gun-ownership-deaths-homicides

"Violent crime is down and has been on the decline for decades." You have proven the adage, "Statistics lie, and liars use statistics." Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries, a new study finds. Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. And, even though the United States' suicide rate is similar to other countries, the nation's gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than other high-income countries, researchers said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/

Saying violent crime is down in America is like changing seats on the Titanic.

"The principal public safety concerns with respect to guns are suicides and illegally owned handguns, not mass shootings." Where did you get that? I feel fairly certain that students and their parents across America are far more concerned about mass shootings.

"A small number of factors significantly increase the likelihood that a person will be a victim of a gun-related homicide." Lol, what? Makes no sense. Unless that "small number of factors" means being Black in a ghetto, or something like that.

"Gun-related murders are carried out by a predictable pool of people." Again, lol, what on earth does that have to do with anything. Marriages are carried out by a predictable pool of people. And....?