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	<title>Schadenfreude &#187; road rage</title>
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		<title>Road Rage with Handguns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;m always hearing is how if you are allowed to have a gun in your car, road rage will involve a lot more shootings.  I&#8217;ve never really believed it, and I decided to see how much the Google News Archives show for this type of story.  There are around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things I&#8217;m always hearing is how if you are allowed to have a gun in your car, road rage will involve a lot more shootings.  I&#8217;ve never really believed it, and I decided to see how much the Google News Archives show for this type of story.  There are around 40,000 stories that contain &#8220;road rage gun,&#8221; some of which can be seen <a href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=road+rage+gun&amp;num=10&amp;scoring=n&amp;nav_num=100">here</a>.  I saw some interesting trends:</p>
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<li>There are three incidents on the linked page in Australia, surprisingly, even though they have very strict handgun control.  Even fake guns were involved&#8230;</li>
<li>There was one in Toronto, also strict on handgun ownership</li>
<li>Many states in the US are represented, including Maryland, Georgia, and Florida</li>
<li><strong>Quite a few are road rage incidents involving off-duty or retired police officers or Federal marshalls</strong>!!</li>
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<p>There was a <a href="http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2006/02/research-on-guns-and-road-rage.html">study</a> that showed that &#8220;people who carry guns in their car are more likely to have road rage.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a pretty far stretch since the percentages are 23% of people with guns vs. 16% of people without them.  I don&#8217;t think this is a good conclusion.  Until someone can show me that road rage deaths in Texas or Alaska or Florida increased when carry laws were loosened, I won&#8217;t believe these urban legends I keep hearing.  And, if they&#8217;re not urban legends, please <strong>please</strong> cite your source &#8211; at least the publication.</p>
<p>I find the last one really shocking.  Many of these people are trained very well in firearm use and safety.  I would really like to be able to break it down by state using the Google archive search, but I can&#8217;t find that.  If anyone knows where I can find statistics on police reports per state for road rage incidents involving handguns, especially time series data, let me know.</p>
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