I remember when redditors decided they were going to "solve" the boston bombing and they just ended up harassing innocent people and distracting law enforcement.

It is like the stupid idea that people are going to fight terrorists with handguns. Really when the shooting starts you don't know what the hell is going on and if you see some guy with a gun you are going to think they are the shooter and maybe they are just somebody like you who wants to help.

For instance when Gabrielle Giffords got shot, the hero who wrested the gun away from the shooter when he was reloading was holding the gun so he could keep it away from the shooter and then somebody showed up with a gun and demanded that he drop the gun, and they argued about this. Here you had people who were trying to do the right things and did not know the facts and could have added to the tragedy. I think of that crazy scene were a bunch of wastoids were shooting at each other in Waco.

You don't want to be part of that either in real life or cyber life.

Weird world we live in.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/attorney-cop-said-he-didnt-know-why...

It is hard enough when the people involved are trained professional gunfighters, but even worse when it is just some average person who decides to pack a piece. There you are dealing just with competence at actual gun fighting, but even people who are so bad at just operating a gun that they shoot themselves on the way home from a gun safety class.

(Oddly, the first thing I learned about gun safety is go to the range, load the gun there, shoot all the bullets, don't carry or leave a loaded gun around)