We agree!!!!! I am 1000 times more likely to have the opportunity to talk with people about what I love. The education of firearms and laws to those 1000 people is a lot more important to me than the hassle.
Never occured to you that those who would cause you the most "hassle" are those who have already made up their minds on the matter? Thus would be the least willing to "talk with' you on the topic.
Trying to "educate" apparent idiots lost it's excitement for me long ago. Probably why I stopped teaching Community College "attendees" ("Student" is probably too gratious a term for many of them.) some time ago. I didn't need the money and the great majority of the "attendees" apparently didn't need the knowledge. (Waste of my time.... and their's. Only they hadn't realized it yet.)
American "ticket punching" at it's best (?).
GG