All were familiar with guns and NRA, keith. They were a folklorist professor; a professional photographer; a scriptwriter professor, runner-up for Pulitzer Prize several years ago, with US and Canada best-seller; owner large insurance company,on national library board, nuclear power director, painter, sculptor, skeet shooter and angler, all round polymath. Disparate opinions of solutions, great conversation, on leaving they said they "wished they could talk this way at home." (The majority was women.)