Ignorance is everywhere. As my dad was buying me my first .45 when I was 16, the guy behind the counter solemnly assured me that a .45 ball round striking the tip of the pinky will tear off a mans arm....in an antigunner world a .22lr will blow a dudes bowels out if he is hit on the big toe
That story is literally true, for the old-school definition of "literally".
No group has a monopoly on ignorance.