The problem, as I see it and as I've experienced it, is that the US is actually evolving into two segments: rural and urban. Urbanites cannot see the need for -- and indeed have little need for -- firearms. On the other hand, those in rural areas see just the opposite.

Both are correct, because each situation is different.

Living around Cincinnati, in Northern Indiana, near Cleveland, I would suspect that 75% of the those I met really had no need for firearms and did not want them.

Living here in the West, in a small city quite literally three hours from 'most anything, where hunting and fishing were and are activities in which about 85% of the population indulges, where 4-H clubs teach shooting safety on a rifle range that continues out to 675 yards and has a whole mountain for a backstop, folks don't get excited about firearms. They're taken as tools, not viewed as a "solution" as so many urbanites seem to see them.

It's a complex problem, which neither side likes to admit because complex problems aren't easily solved. And while I can see the problem, no, I don't have a solution.