Jenny Price in the Washington Post is critical of anti-freedom lobbying groups for "thinking small":

...what troubles me most is that the gun control lobby is pouring its resources into battles that probably won't save many lives -- and we're losing even those.

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The real problem is not that handguns aren't safe or well-regulated enough, or that you can't sue and try to bankrupt a corrupt manufacturer after someone you love has been killed. The problem is that 65 million people in the United States own handguns.

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And if the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which leads the gun control crusade, continues to assure us that it won't try to outlaw handguns?

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Wouldn't it make more sense to define the ultimate battle as one for a national ban on handguns -- the sole gun-control measure that promises to save tens of thousands of lives? With an endgame that can actually achieve the ultimate goal, perhaps we'd acquire the logical and moral authority to win more of the smaller battles.

First off, I am extremely sorry for the tragic loss of her brother to a someone using a gun.  But it wasn't a gun that killed him, it was someone using a gun.  That someone could have used a car, fire, or a kitchen knife to do the same evil.  It's the user, not the tool, that is evil.

Going on to the more important points it is she, Ms. Price, that is guilty of "thinking small."  She has an extremely poor source of information when she claims:

Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense.

Ignoring that she confuses the number of guns used to kill people with the number of people killed with guns (the same gun is often used to kill several people) I suspect she got her number from the number of initial charges of murder that were later dropped, or perhaps mixed up the number of self-defenses in some small geographical area or short time period and compared that to the number of people killed in the entire nation during a year.  In any case even the most casual of researchers can find far more than 160 cases of legitimate self-defense in a year.  The real number, according to numerous studies, is somewhere between one and three million per year--most of which don't result in a shot being fired and never make it into the news.

Hence, her error of "thinking small" has to do with her use of a very small number for legitimate self-defense uses of firearms.  Many of the other numbers she uses are distorted or misleading as well.

Add to that Just One Question which puts to rest the false promise of banning weapons to improve public safety and I think Ms. Price should have sufficient material to expand her thinking on the issue before she writes another opinion piece.