Yeah, I agree that shooting junk of any description is bad, and electronic stuff is even worse.
It seems that a goodly portion of the people in the world take it personal when somebody leaves a pile of trash sitting in an otherwise pretty landscape.
When said pile of trash is riddled with bullet holes, then "The Gun Nuts" instantly get the blame... Even if said trash was already there when the shooters showed up. We certainly don't need to be creating any more enemies.
Electronic stuff tends to break up into teeny little pieces when shot, and are almost impossible to completely clean up. The non- biodegradable nature of the scattered chunks creates what basically amounts to a forever mess.
Having said all that...
There's very few things in this world more frustrating than a computer that won't act right.
I have to admit that I have in fact taken a 12 gauge to a computer before and don't regret doing it one little bit. (Buckshot is AWESOME!)
Yes- it took way too long to clean up a mess I made in just a few seconds.
No- I probably didn't get each and every little bit and I didn't crawl around on my hands and knees looking for every little shard. There were bits and pieces blown a considerable distance in all directions.
I probably won't shoot another one, but teaching that computer to never lock up on me again sure seemed like the thing to do at the time.