a sure shot

Guardian report: Ever since cowboys first swaggered onto the silver screen, scientists have been struggling to solve a conundrum. Why do the bad guys always get shot in a gunfight when they're the ones who reached for their guns first?

The Nobel laureate and quantum physicist Niels Bohr was so intrigued with the puzzle he came up with a theory: the one who draws second moves faster because he reacts without thinking.
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well does it need such a vast amount of research? it can be understood in simpler terms. the one who draws the gun first will have some compunction - for a second at least - because we have been wired to not kill (split infinitive, grammarians pl indulge me) fellow human beings. that moral ambivalence will give that much time for the defendent to hit back. in the case of the latter, it's a question of survival and again we have been wired to save ourselves come what may.
luckily, pathological killers - those with obsessive mental disorder to kill - are so very rare. they may go for the kill. most others are hired ones - ideologically or for money or for both. the others waver for a little time and get eliminated.

instead of this, it's a service to humankind had the research focussed on why anyone indulges in killing at all.

it's the same case with people who shoot their mouths off. the one that does so will be left feeling that he shot himself in his foot when the other man comes up with a repartee. see this from twitterature: i am propagating maoist agenda through my websie, an angry young man flares. oh so u r a dot commie, says the cool recipient.
not all people who have the gun will succeed in having their way. there was sri T. Prakasam Pantulu, first andhra pradesh chief minister, who bared his chest to the British guns and earned the title andhrakesari (tiger from andhra). the Mahatma instilled sobriety by his famous quote, "An eye for eye leaves the whole world blind."
so the culture of gun triggers mayhem (naxals r u hearing?) the best shot, as the Mahatma proved, is dialogue.

the lumpen elements called Naxalites kill policemen. policemen are quite egalitarian in this respect - kill men, women and children. they don't differentiate. shoot first, ask later.
man is many times an anti-social animal. the quest to achieve leads to violence. it's not pacificsm. but the principles of accommodation are forgotten. impatience has better of reason and hence bloodshed. sometimes murders take place over a pot of water.is it worth it? states fight between themselves for river water. india, pakistan fight over baglihar. let's remember live and let live will. peace is the offshoot of this attitude.