...for simply dismissing any discussion, action, or opposition out of hand.

I've seen plenty of attempts to find common ground swatted aside. If it's up to us to control the rhetoric of every last person on this side of the issue, what responsibility the author of this piece held her own side to? We were treated to 8 years of screaming about how Obama was coming to take your guns, despite nothing of the sort taking place. Can I ask Ms. Dake-O'Connor to point me to her columns providing lists to those persons how that was unhelpful and would not make anyone more likely to see their view?

Here's a "good faith" task they can work on: It is often said that we have enough gun laws, it's that they aren't being enforced. (This often comes with a big scare-em number in the tens of thousands about how many gun laws there are, a number which is disingenuously generated by counting the same clusters of similar laws across hundreds of jurisdictions. Speaking of good faith, how about shitcanning crap numbers like that, eh?)

So let's drill down: Which existing laws are not being enforced, and why not? And how do we correct that?

I have occasionally gotten people to think with that one, but it never lasts long. One visit to their favorite media sites/stations and it's washed away like a sandcastle when the tide comes in.