&gt; The question I think you want to ask is &quot;what gun controls do you want&quot;? Not &quot;what is gun control.&quot;<p>No, that IS the question I, in fact, asked. I did not ask &quot;what is gun control?&quot;.  Actually, what I asked is a bit more subtle than &quot;what gun controls do you want?&quot;. This is what I asked, quoting:<p>&quot;How, specifically, would you define &quot;gun control&quot;?&quot;<p>Here, &quot;would you define&quot; is a very precise modifier.  And the context, perhaps lost, was that the OP implied &quot;gun control&quot; was the &quot;elephant in the room&quot; when it came to police interacting with civilians.<p>That&#x27;s a bit different from &quot;what gun controls do you want?&quot; but definitely NOT &quot;what is gun control&quot;.  If you think that&#x27;s what I asked you misread my question.<p>Please don&#x27;t try to push me into a corner with &quot;if you had researched the topic&quot;.  I actually know the topic very well.  Here I am trying to understand what someone else thinks gun control has to be, their opinion or ideas, not the &quot;book&quot; definition.  I know that latter very well, I care to learn the former.<p>Not sure how else to ask this.  I thought I was clear.  So, I&#x27;ll try again, for the last time and then I&#x27;ll unilaterally drop my attempt to understand.<p>What would you --not wikipedia, the dictionary or politicians-- you (or the person I originally asked) suggest would be the approach to gun control legislation that would allow police officers to not worry about whether or not civilians are armed when approaching them?<p>I will repeat, because this medium sucks at conveying emotion, I am not critical of anything you have said nor am I challenging anything anyone has said.<p>I am simply looking for someone to perhaps put up a five to ten bullet-point list delineating what form of &quot;gun control&quot; they think would provide a solution for the stated scenario, one where a cop is concerned about a citizen being armed when approaching them.  What set of rules would constitute this version of &quot;gun control&quot; that would produce that reality?<p>BTW, I don&#x27;t have an answer for that.  Then again, I did not propose &quot;gun control&quot; was the elephant in that room.<p>To clarify further, I am not for or against guns.  I am completely neutral about them.  I am simply trying to learn because, frankly, I don&#x27;t know what the solution might be or if we actually need one.