Avy, you were really rude the these two guys and for no reason at all.

bel, you're unfair to Avy. He was advocating that we posters adopt a calmer tone and refrain from incendiary terms like "impaled".

I would have advocated the same way, and I hope I would have done so with more restraint, but I too was disturbed by the words to which Avy replied. And since he lives in India, I can understand why he would be particularly distressed by the negative references to Gandhi. Avy was reacting to provocation (accidental provocation, I trust), not "for no reason at all".