There are a lot of sides to the issues, but they break down to two basic camps. Either you are for, or against. Either you love, or hate guns, depending on the hyperbole of the other side.
Not so. I grew up hunting in a rural area, I'm an Army veteran, and I own long guns. I like guns. Always have. I think many, if not most, who have fired a rifle, like it. And to many, there is an element of primal satisfaction in holding an instrument of death, or knowing it gives one the power to deal death. But my opinion is that enough is enough. The gun culture that has been marketed in the past 25 years is insane. We need to outlaw concealed carry, with an eye toward the eventual ban of handguns, and we need to outlaw high-capacity magazines in high-velocity weapons. For someone who isn't in frequent combat-style training, a double-barrel is the optimum home-defense weapon. I'm fine with long guns.
I can and do say nonsense. I could think of other stronger words to express the reaction, but hopefully you get the point.
A weapon is dangerous, especially if handled carelessly. However, it is not viewed as an instrument of death by most gun owners. I know quite a few, and while the purpose of the weapon, hunting, might include lethality as part of the calculation, the accuracy tends to be far more important. The most leather round in the world sailing by the target is just as useless as the least effective sailing by. This alone tells me that there is something seriously wrong with your story, and approach.
The next problem is your stated desire to both concealed carry, and home defense. Joe Biden made the argument that a double barrel shotgun was the perfect home defense weapon, and was roundly and easily criticized by pretty much everyone who had ever shot a target, or thought about home defense for more than ten seconds. A few days ago we had the story of a homeowner who killed three people who had broken into his home. He used an AR-15 to kill them. But let’s pretend that in your scenario there are only two. And you fire and hit one of two baddies. Now you have a heavy and somewhat unwieldy club to defend yourself. At a 50% hit ratio, you are doing much better than the average for police, who at ten feet managed to hit four times out of ten shots at ten feet. A shotgun is not a magic wand of death, and just pointing it in the general direction of the baddies does not guarantee a hit, much less a kill. Something you would know if you were a shooter. Or something you don’t care about if you are trying to disarm the population.
Concealed carry. It is well established that the concealed carry portion of the population is the least criminal subset of the American citizenry. They commit crimes at a rate of ten percent to what even cops are convicted of. So you are ten times less likely to commit a crime if your are a concealed carry holder, over a cop. Oh and the most common crime of the concealed carry holders was forgetting to have their permit/license on them while carrying. Yeah, it’s sort of like leaving your driving license at home when you go cruising to buy some Kale. Only with a weapon, it’s a crime that gets you locked up and gets your permit/license revoked.
So your goals towards increasing safety is to disarm the least criminal elements of our society, and allow them to be armed with a weapon at the home only that is one step up from a baseball bat, thus insuring that they might be able to defend their homes and families from one attacker, but are totally victimized by a larger group of baddies.
This is why I said that your reply was nonsense. I won’t bother asking you silly questions about firearms to either confirm or deny your claim about your history with firearms. I don’t know if you made it up, or if you are telling the truth. It doesn’t matter. Everything else in your reply is discredited nonsense. Discredited statistically, discredited factually, and it does not bear the scrutiny of common sense consideration for even a moment.
So other than getting rid of the noisy items that scare you, what is your plan?
