Sadly we are a tiny minority of the population. A population that sees us as nothing more than a bunch of immature men playing with toy airplanes. When even one citizen has an issue with what we are doing the go to response is to put a stop to it. Most communities are quick to shut down this kind of activity for any reason, real or imagined. California is a prime example. Mile Square park in Garden Grove had three 18 hole golf courses and a nice hobby area. It had a nice runway and an area used for the Boy Scouts model rocketry. In the late 90's the city decided that it needed to have one more golf course and with almost no resistance from the community it happened. they shut down the hobby area and put in a fourth golf course. Most of southern California is at best electric only. To the rest of the country our "hobby" is a joke, and far too few would care enough to even give it a second thought if they just outlawed it completely. Our greatest threat is that, as long as it doesn't affect them the vast majority doesn't care if our hobby is outlawed. While most would agree that the right thing to do when someone does something stupid, is punish the individual, the average person may at most know one person in our hobby. That means that no matter what they do to the hobby only one person, in their mind, is being affected.