Can Americans talk about guns? These students in Austin and Knoxville showed how to do it.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Some students surprised others with their positions, including a conservative student who deeply cherishes gun ownership but who thinks the Second Amendment does more harm than good because gun regulation should be an issue left to the states individually rather than prescribed to the country as a whole.
58% :Debate chair Sadie Webb, who hails from rural New Mexico where she was never far from guns but who wrestles with concerns surrounding gun rights, said she did not envy those who weathered intense cross-examination from their classmates on each side.
55% : The organizers also told the students that they believed these young men and women could handle the conversation, which centered on the proposition that the Second Amendment does more harm than good.
50% : Braver Angels (for which I work and which is America's largest grassroots, bipartisan organization focused on political depolarization) held two student debates Monday focused on gun control and the Second Amendment.
50% : Students who lean conservative said they hold a good deal of common ground with their left-leaning peers on policy ideas, including background checks and training requirements for gun ownership.
46% : After a student said the Second Amendment is a "God-given right," the philosophical collision went to another level, with students exploring the role of faith in each other's thinking.
44% : Skinner grew up in a military family that places a high value on responsible gun ownership.
42% : Pass tougher gun laws.

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