The Stupidity Of Internet Know-It-Alls

By Tom Knighton

I’m not an expert on much of anything. I’ll be the first to tell you that. While I’m proud of having a pretty broad base of knowledge, there’s no topic at all that I put myself as being near the top of the intellectual heap on.

However, I do encounter plenty of them. I’m constantly amused by the people who will routinely address anything they disagree with as something that will get you killed.

Not that I’m immune to it, to be sure. I’ve made similar comments from time to time, but there are a few things that are nearly constant triggers for the phrase, “That’ll get you killed in the streets!” And over at Shooting Illustrated, Tamara Keel takes a whack at the stupid.

It’s to the point where “Killed on the streets” has become something of an inside joke. I’ve been trying to catalog these methods of self-induced demise, partly to debunk them, and partly in the hopes I can publish a phonebook-size compendium some day and profit handsomely. I’ll just go ahead and share some of these with y’all today, though, for free.

Carrying a revolver, for starters, will apparently get me killed on the street. This …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms