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In reply to the discussion: Man shot in road rage upset that prosecutor won’t file charges [View all]OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)100. This is a common misconceptoin I've seen you and many other anti's state...
That people carry a gun to be macho, or they are cowards, or they have small penises, or any of other insinuations that the gun somehow makes them braver.
The truth is quite the opposite. If you ever think you may be assaulted or in a life threatening altercation, I would think that giving yourself every advantage to come out on top alive would be the SMART thing to do... and that has nothing to do with faux bravery or penis size. Sure, you'd also need to learn about the basics of statistics and how rare such an event is, but it rarely has to do with being macho.
If you ever find yourself in a fair fight then your tactics were flawed.
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Man shot in road rage upset that prosecutor won’t file charges [View all]
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
OP
Hear hear. All road rage will get you is dead - from a heart attack if not from being shot.
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#205
From what I read in article, guy could have driven off. I think prosecutor nailed it.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#38
Still could have driven off. And it doesn't sound like the shooter was "beaten" close to death.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#44
Read the article, bike was behind him. And driver left the scene of the shooting after he shot him.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#49
I don't care why he left, he did. Should have done it before pulling his gun. And he shouldn't
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#56
Neither were you. DA said he thinks it is wrong, but he has no choice under state's gun laws.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#63
It's the law in MO. Car is same as house. If someone unlawfully enters, you are allowed
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#143
Yes ...we all should wait until we are seconds away from dying before using a gun.
L0oniX
Jun 2012
#147
Eh, I can see both positions as having an element of macho swagger to them
alcibiades_mystery
Jun 2012
#65
I would sit and think about what could happen with a visually impaired driver...
Clames
Jun 2012
#194
I'm mystified by the idea that you have some right to beat up a 65 y.o. man in public.
Romulox
Jun 2012
#29
It's not like TV! 1 hit can kill ...expecially if it knocks someone over to the ground...
L0oniX
Jun 2012
#134
The driver of the car almost ran the motoryclist's wife off the road do to careless driving.
Ikonoklast
Jun 2012
#6
If you deliberately try to drive my wife, friend or myself off the road with your car,
MadHound
Jun 2012
#7
This idiot DID have it coming. He confronted the driver. And got his dumb ass shot....
Logical
Jun 2012
#123
Where in the hell do you see "deliberately" in this story. It was a mistake....
Logical
Jun 2012
#121
Ugh. Sick of the gun humping cowards. If you are gonna get violent, use your damn fists, like men.
phleshdef
Jun 2012
#15
Yes, living in NYC I rarely drive anymore, but when I lived in Florida this happened a lot
stevenleser
Jun 2012
#81
Oh right, because attempting rape is the same thing as a road rage induced squabble.
phleshdef
Jun 2012
#180
You don't have to give a flying fuck. It doesn't change the fact that its cowardice.
phleshdef
Jun 2012
#190
Is that the best you got? I guess I better back off before you try to shoot me.
phleshdef
Jun 2012
#189
no witness could state, as a fact, what the intentions of the driver were. there are alot of people
leftyohiolib
Jun 2012
#20
The proper response is to call the police, then. You don't get to beat people in revenge.
Romulox
Jun 2012
#30
Let's assume for the sake of discussion that it was a deliberate attempt to run the woman off
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#37
According to some meat head morons he should have been man enough to punch the biker back ....pffft
L0oniX
Jun 2012
#137
Laying a gun on your lap and shooting someone when you can drive away, deserves at least trial.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#66
That's the problem 1/10, law allows one with a gun to shoot people when they could have left.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#74
And he should have, but that doesn't give a man with a gun the right to shoot an unarmed person
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#96
Stick around until he gets so tired from punching that he collapses in exhaustion?
Cave_Johnson
Jun 2012
#98
And don't shoot unarmed people who may have "punched" once (and that is in question).
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#104
The fact that people carry guns scares criminals and big mussel bound fist users ...and
L0oniX
Jun 2012
#145
Well if that were the assumption, why did driver/shooter pull his gun and place it in his lap first?
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#105
I can't say... Personally, I just keep mine in the open between the two front seats.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#107
What do you mean this guy isn't into macho crap -- he carried and pulled a gun first when he could
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#75
What did I misrepresent? Rather than leaving, driver pulled his gun before cyclist got to his car.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#95
This is a common misconceptoin I've seen you and many other anti's state...
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jun 2012
#100
Neither do I, and it just occurred to me that the subject line conveys a simple but obvious irony
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#109