Road Rage Cases With Guns More Than Double in 3 Years, Report Says.

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'When the former N.F.L. player Joe McKnight was shot and killed last year in what the authorities described as a case of road rage, it was a high-profile example of what has been a marked increase in the use of guns in such confrontations, a new analysis shows.

The analysis was published by The Trace, a nonprofit organization focused on gun violence. It found that cases of road rage involving a firearm — where someone brandished a gun or fired one at a driver or passenger — more than doubled to 620 in 2016, from 247 in 2014.

The Trace compiled its data from the Gun Violence Archive, which inventories and catalogs episodes of gun violence in the United States based on news and police reports and other sources.

There were at least 1,319 road rage episodes involving firearms during the three-year period examined, with at least 354 people wounded and 136 killed, The Trace reported. . .

There is no way to pinpoint what caused the increase in reported road confrontations involving firearms. The Trace reported that states with large numbers of concealed-carry permit holders and relaxed gun laws — such as Florida and Texas — had a higher number of cases.

Florida was No. 1, with 147; followed by Texas, 126; California, 82; Tennessee, 68; and Pennsylvania, 62. Louisiana was No. 10.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/road-rage-guns.html?

[ExciteBike66]

1. No, an armed society is supposed to be

a polite society. I am going to put my head in the sand until the NRA is proven correct!

[maxsolomon]

2. RKBA downplaying in...

"There are way more incidents than that in the Dominican Republic"

"They would have just used a knife or a bomb"

On edit: "What about Chicago?"

etc.

[NurseJackie]

3. I wish there was something sensible that could be done about this.

[Hoyt]

4. Three years ago, then NRA President's son was imprisoned for shooting a motorist in a road rage

incident. An increase in road rage shootings shouldn't surprise anyone.

Daddies are bringing their kids up in gun culture, and proud of it.

[Lee-Lee]

5. Using a varied and incomplete database for your study produces meaningless results

Since they didn't actually use a data source that is reliable or has had the same level of data scrutiny or input over the years the results are meaningless.

The gun violence archive scans various online data sources. Problem is that every year more sources come online to be searched. More and more departments and agencies start putting their data online to be accessed.

In addition every year they make the database of sources they search larger as they add new data sources to the search algorithm.

So when they search more data sources than three years ago of course they find more data than they did three years ago.

Had they limited the study only to only data sources available both years it would have been a valid study, but I can't find any indication in the study they even attempted to control for the difference in data input to the database.

[NurseJackie]

6. If only we had some respected lawmakers who would be willing to address this.