According to many of the Freepers, if they had an agitated man come up to them yelling at them, ordering them to tell him their name and the reason for their being out, in the middle of the night, they’d be perfectly secure in having a conversation with this gentleman.
Apparently this is the case. Some appear to either forget, or ingnore, or be inconsiderate of the fact that when one legally carries a firearm there comes great responsibility. To allow a situation, in which there was no need to escalate it to the level of a confrontation in the first place, to deteriorate to the point where he felt the need to use his firearm was, at the least, ill-advised.