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

[billh58]

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 news 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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/road-rage-guns.html?emc=edit_th_20170426&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=31465010&_r=0

"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."

Really? More guns = more violence? Who would have thought...

[wasupaloopa]

1. Wait I thought it was "an armed society was a polite society"

The unarmed need to be polite so they don't get shot.

Maybe along with gun training they try to piss you off and if you react violently you have to also take anger management therapy

[flamin lib]

2. At the same time gun thefts have tripled as well, largely due to relaxed laws on gun

carry in cars. What happens to all those stolen guns? A lot of them are recovered at crime scenes.

Yeah, lets make it easier to carry guns everywhere all the time.

What could possibly go wrong?