What Wapitirod wrote is very true and a problem for us. I just had it come up the other day from someone who I had always thought was a pretty reasonable person. The statement they put forth was, "We all know that handguns only have one use and that is murdering people. Self defense numbers can not compare to the murder numbers."
I pointed out that I hunt with a handgun and had him in my office to show him photos from this site and the bragging... oops, I mean testimonial page from MOA guns.
His comment?
"Well there are always isolated cases of misuse of a tool.."

So yes, we have an uphill information battle ahead of us.

ptb