Yes, I am compensating for rude pricks with unaimed or too bright lights... You endanger others, and deserve no compassion or courtesy or slack. I don't need a .357 for you, of course... all I have to do is say, "Poof", and you disappear from my world.

I first heard this method used about 1977-78, heading west from Hobbs, NM, two of us with three repo vehicles. Somewhere east of Midland, TX, the Permian basin is flat as a billiard table where I-10 goes. Some DA trucker with about Pa's level of couth flipped on 4 aircraft landing lights on his front bumper. This was the heyday of CB radio, and immediately several eastbounders complained about having to drive into the equivalent of the sunrise at 10pm with night adapted eyes. No avail. DA's uberlight was more important to him than common courtesy. Then about 1000watts of linear amplified CB boomed, "I have a .357 magnum with 6 long range dimmer switches...", and the sunrise extinguished. Just remember, there is still somebody out there like that when decide it's "their tough luck". Darwin never sleeps.

Think on this. Your ability to see in the dark depends on a chemical called visual violet in the retina. It is destroyed by light, and takes from 30 minutes to two hours to be replenished, so one blast from your HID lights kills someone's night vision for from half an hour to two hours, sometimes more. This endangers their life. This makes the use of the .357 dimmer switch a legal act, does it not?

Sociopathology is contrasurvival, is it not?