I'm fine with automatic weapons being banned. But if we give the gun control freaks and inch they take a mile, look lets be honest the gun control lobby their goal is to ban guns, period. It doesn't matter how much we compromise with those assholes they will just keep coming back until there is a full ban on private gun ownership.
And this is where our hyper-polarized, partisan politics are killing us. Both parties operate on, essentially, "scorched-earth" policies. Each imposes as much radical change as possible while they're in power.
I don't see it changing for the better unless we first change the voting system to counter the lesser-of-two-evils dilemma.