At the time that happened I did live in Vegas (97-2001) and our office was listed and easy to get to. It might not have ended well if they HAD stopped by to visit though ;)
Ultimately what I’m saying is this.
You are right. there are some very crazy bastards that will do serious violence. But they only CAN because they are so used to no backlash. Today we fear typing on the internet and think nicknames are our protection. They aren’t. And I have to think the founders would laugh in our faces.
If we want to be free men, we better damn well act like we want to be free men and stand up for ourselves rather than do a pajama boy cover act.
I doubt it. Alexander Hamilton ("Publius") would not laugh, at least.
Nicknames are used for several things. I think of them as simply a level of indirection to allow propositions to stand on their own separate from considerations of personality. Good ones stand out.
Of course, when somebody really rattles the leftists, any protection they might have got from a nick is temporary. That's when you go to open combat -- as Buckhead et alii, did.