Road rage shootings...

Triple Threat 33T

What in the heck has gotten into people?

Seems like you hear of a road rage shooting and or death at least once a day.

Are they really on the rise or is it the media looking to boost ratings?

gandrfab

polay said he is locked loaded and on his way up.

Buckeye

Triple Threat 33T wrote: »

What in the heck has gotten into people?

People down here drive like idiots and other people are stressed out of their mind.

About a year ago I had a guy get out of his vehicle because I accidently flashed my lights at him in at 3pm in the afternoon on the way home from the kids school. I was in my wife's vehicle and when I use the turn signal sometimes the brights go off. Anyways he slammed on his brakes in the middle of a residential road and came running about half way back screaming if I flashed my lights again he'd "put two in your head". I politely told him to shut the **** up and get back in his car. He proceeded to take two more steps towards my vehicle as I was drawing my colt from its holster. He quickly ran back to his vehicle and drove off. About a half mile later he pulled off the road in to someone's yard and had his hands in his face, crying I presume for how sour the situation could have been.

I think if everyone worried more about themselves and what they are doing and less about everyone else around them the world would be a better place.

SC53

Time to move out, gotten too crazy down here

Fly Hooker

SC53 wrote: »

Time to move out, gotten too crazy down here

The sad part is that its everywhere now.......

Triple Threat 33T

People have lost their minds. Someone cuts you off or flashes their high beams or honks their horn and you somehow think it's ok point a firearm at them and then pull the trigger with the intent to kill them?

Triple Threat 33T

The human race is spiraling out of control. We're doomed.

Buckeye

Triple Threat 33T wrote: »

The human race is spiraling out of control. We're doomed.

Miserable people with miserable lives taking their frustrations out on strangers.

Nothing new.

Panfishangler1

if everyone just listened to good, clean, family Christian radio stations.... there would be less violence on the road. I stand by what I said.

NACl H2O Luvr

Triple Threat 33T wrote: »

People have lost their minds. Someone cuts you off or flashes their high beams or honks their horn and you somehow think it's ok point a firearm at them and then pull the trigger with the intent to kill them?

Triple Threat 33T wrote: »

The human race is spiraling out of control. We're doomed.

Please read this article, PLEASE!

I actually posted it yesterday over in Politics.....evidently, I should have posted it here.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/editorial-panic-culture-threatens-freedom/article/2572993

http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?203967-Panic-culture-threatens-freedom

Westwall01

I believe listening to Christian radio would give me road rage

GrillaG

Moral decay of society, history repeating itself.

Gardawg

Pandemic of narcissism ...

The Russians are much better at road rage ... drunken fisticuffs are much more entertaining to watch

NACl H2O Luvr

It's the end of the world!!!! :willynilly....really interesting to see how the media influences our hysterical population with their "if it bleeds, it leads" reporting.


Now for some facts, and not baseless emotional response.

Here are the just released FBI violent crime stats for 2014.

Overview

In 2014, an estimated 1,165,383 violent crimes occurred nationwide, a decrease of 0.2 percent from the 2013 estimate. (See Table 1/1A)

When considering 5- and 10-year trends, the 2014 estimated violent crime total was 6.9 percent below the 2010 level and 16.2 percent below the 2005 level. (See Table 1/1A)

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/violent-crime


https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/violent-crime

Cyclist

Panfishangler1 wrote: »

if everyone just listened to good, clean, family Christian radio stations.... there would be less violence on the road. I stand by what I said.

That would certainly make me want to put a bullet in my head or anyone's head........

Gardawg

NACl H2O Luvr wrote: »

Now for some facts, and not baseless emotional response.

Here are the just released FBI violent crime stats for 2014.



https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/violent-crime


https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/violent-crime

as background checks increase violent crime decreases ...

Is there a point of diminishing returns ? could we eliminate violent crime with adequate background checks ?

NACl H2O Luvr

Gardawg wrote: »

as background checks increase violent crime decreases ...

Is there a point of diminishing returns ? could we eliminate violent crime with adequate background checks ?

All your graph demonstrates is that, as more honest law abiding citizens are purchasing guns in this nation....violent crime is going down.

Criminals with intent to commit crime go through different channels to get their guns.

RStyle

Going in circles around the issue that if someone is carrying he is or feels a little more macho and is willing to take the extra step.
Anger, stress, carrying.......................

gandrfab

Cyclist wrote: »

That would certainly make me want to put a bullet in my head or anyone's head........

I agree with Cyclist.

Gardawg

NACl H2O Luvr wrote: »

All your graph demonstrates is that, as more honest law abiding citizens are purchasing guns in this nation....violent crime is going down.

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all the graph illustrates is that background checks are increasing yearly ... any conclusions drawn are just opinions

RStyle

The fact that violent crime has dropped from 1.25 MILLION offenses to 1.165 MILLION
May look good in percentages...........but by the numbers, it does not make me feel any safer

NACl H2O Luvr

Gardawg wrote: »

all the graph illustrates is that background checks are increasing yearly ... any conclusions drawn are just opinions

I don't think you understand how background checks work....let me explain it to you. More background checks simply means more people are purchasing guns from FFL dealers. No conclusions to draw, it's a straight forward fact.

A background check is only performed every time someone without a conceal carry permit purchases a gun. More background checks simply means more guns being sold to people going though an FFL dealer.

Madbeach

Buckeye wrote: »

Miserable people with miserable lives taking their frustrations out on strangers.

Nothing new.

This ^^^^

A guy that I work with gets IT telemarketing calls quite a bit. He usually entertains their pitch to see if he can get anything out of it for free. Well lately, he has been getting very angry with them, telling the caller if they didn't take his name off of the calling list, he would track them down and cut his/her throat. Kinda makes me worried about working with him considering I share an office with him. He's very passive aggressive.

Cyclist

The people who accelerate towards stop lights are the same people who suffer from the road rage mental illness.....they also probably beat their family.

Buckeye

NACl H2O Luvr wrote: »

I don't think you understand how background checks work....let me explain it to you. More background checks simply means more people are purchasing guns from FFL dealers. No conclusions to draw, it's a straight forward fact.

A background check is only performed every time someone without a conceal carry permit purchases a gun. More background checks simply means more guns being sold to people going though an FFL dealer.

Having a concealed weapons permit has nothing to do with background checks. Purchasing a firearm from a FFL requires a background check regardless of your license status.

NACl H2O Luvr

Buckeye wrote: »

Having a concealed weapons permit has nothing to do with background checks. Purchasing a firearm from a FFL requires a background check regardless of your license status.

For Florida you are correct. However, since we were discussing NICS background check numbers at a National Level, I through in that caveat since some states don't require a NICS background check for people who have already gone through the background check and approval for conceal carry.

Buckeye

NACl H2O Luvr wrote: »

For Florida you are correct. However, since we were discussing NICS background check numbers at a National Level, I through in that caveat since some states don't require a NICS background check for people who have already gone through the background check and approval for conceal carry.

Federal law requires the instant background check when purchasing from a federally licensed firearm dealer.

One thing Florida does have that most states don't have is a waiting period of 3 days (individual counties can extend to 5 days) to take possession of a legally purchased handgun unless you have a concealed weapons permit.

Quite ridiculous if you ask me.

SAENole

The uptick in violence is a direct result of the intense temperature increase on Earth caused by greedy corporations and The Man.

It's like putting a rorch in a microwave and clicking the "10 MINUTES" button. Sooner or later it's gonna explode.

rock_fish

I like to listen to good, Taoist radio in the morning

Heatwave

I like reading the Florida Southern ultra conservative republican forums and linked news letters... i.e. Florida sportsman off topic section...

Examiner is a real piece of work and following that type of stuff directly for ones news is like the Germans listening to **** circa 1933.. Had so many good things to say about Germany as a nation and bad things to say about the other parties and a group of people within the country that needed removed. Directly compare it to the fight against the other party here and the Mexicans coming over the boarder. No difference...

But ! To each his own and all those opinions need to be expressed... I for one can't just blindly follow rhetoric...

SAENole

****'s failure to recognize global warming as a threat to the Reich eventually led to his ultimate downfall.