I argued something very similar in my blog post here <a href="http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/01/14/the-second-amendment-in-the-21st-century/" rel="nofollow">http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/01/14/the-second-am...</a>
That was following the suicide of Aaron Swartz, which is also the last time I saw the front page of Hacker News swamped with almost identical stories.