I'm just flinching at the memories of my experiances wasting reasoned discourse on people who are incapable of anything other than an emotional response (i.e. liberals).
These folks are not responsive to common sense arguments. They have their hearts set on their delusions and they are not about to let their head get in the way and compromise things. Some of the liberals I've worked with in the past actually said they were "physically menaced" at the mere mention of an afternoon at the shooting range. Of course, I live in a very liberal city so my experiences may not be applicable to the libs you're courting, but across the board, these people don't think about issues like guns, they feel and they react to those feelings without thinking. That's the heart of the problem. Their feelings (mostly an irrational fear with a dash of pious contempt) are manufactured and cultivated by the kind of drivel I'm attacking on this thread.
I just want to be clear, I'm not attacking you or your ideas, I'm attempting to offer my experiances and observations as balance to your well intended, but ultimately fruitless approach. But maybe you are better able to "sell" the right point of view than I was. I am the eeeevvvvviiilll white male after all, so my opinions on guns and their benefits are typically greeted with suspicion, fear or a contemptous glare.