text: I'm sure you stand by your comment.  No amount of reasoning and research will sway a zealot. 
  
  What "I want" is immaterial.  I actually have plenty of isolated areas available to me to safely target practice.  I wear hearing protection when I do, and different "levels" of it based on the calibers I'm shooting.  Don't really worry about it when plinking with my little .22 LR, but got the big muffs on for the .300 WinMag.  
  
  I just would like this issue to be about science and reason, rather than an emotional knee-jerk reaction.  I do realize that's a lot to ask, these days.