Ignorance of the topic at hand is the greatest threat to our rights as American Citizens.
Last week I was showing a girl at work my video of the M44 Nagant. I explained to her the shots she heard to my right were AR-15's.
She looked at me like Bambi caught amidst a pair of halogen lamps attached to a Ford F-350. "How were you able to buy a rifle???? Aren't those illegal?"
A rifle. She honestly believed that rifles were against the law. She then went on to tell me that I probably shouldn't tell anyone else I had bought one.
The deer in the headlights look then transferred to me.
That level of ignorance is what we're up against. She was just misinformed, and I put her straight and she understood when I was done. But had you asked her to vote on a new law that banned bolt-action rifles, she would have done so in an instant because of her ignorance.
It's an uphill battle, for sure.