I have family members in Texas who own guns and are avid hunters. I live in D.C. and have never owned or even lived in a house with guns.

In this time of extreme political partisanship, there are few issues that divide Americans, including families, more than the issue of guns. And there seems to be little effort to understand the lives and perspectives of others — urban vs. rural, coastal vs. the vast middle of the country, gun owners vs. gun haters.