You are a R and just yell 2A!!! You are a D and just yell ban guns!!!
Any legislation at all, gun related or otherwise, is by definition politics. Especially when there is debate involved.
If you think the civil rights movement started about politics, then you know very little about this country.
Of course it was politics, it was the biggest political issue of its day.
And today, guns are one of the biggest political discussions. One cannot separate any aspect of the gun discussion from politics - it is the very definition of politics.
You can have a discussion without all that non-sense. The gun legislation passed last year was not about politics. People tried to make it political so it would fail but they are the ones that failed.
How? The very notion of enacting legislation restricting gun ownership is political. The very notion of NOT enacting restrictive gun legislation is political.
If your question is "is it possible to have an honest discussion about guns *where no one argues*?" The answer is obviously no.
If your question is "is it possible to have an honest discussion about guns *where people are willing to entertain other viewpoints without automatically dismissing them*? I'm afraid that too is a no.
BTW, as discussed elsewhere, we're probably on the same page on this issue - if anything I might be more to the left of you.