> Are people really this oblivious

There are hundreds of accidental gun deaths every year in the US. So yes, people do need to be told to not point guns at their feet (and other body parts) and pull the trigger.

https://ammo.com/articles/accidental-shooting-statistics

Just the other day I saw a video of a guy pulling a trigger on a gun in another person’s hand with the express goal of inuring them with the knock back. Another of a guy accidentally shooting a hole through his own ceiling. And a third one of a guy (there were at least three people present) shooting a rifle into a shallow river; they were lucky the barrel exploded like a looney tunes cartoon.

And we’re talking guns, which are designed to be dangerous. Software is much more nebulous and people have been conditioned for years to just download whatever and install it.