[nickpeterson]

I feel like “enough rope to shoot yourself” is kind of baked into any high power, low ceremony tool.

[stuarthalloway]

As a proponent of just such tools I would say also that "enough rope to shoot(?) yourself" is inherent in tools powerful enough to get anything done, and is not a tradeoff encountered only when reaching for high power or low ceremony.

[nickpeterson]

I always loved the broken phrase because it implies something really went terribly wrong ;)