Comments on: More on guns and road rage (or the lack of)

By: SayUncle » Another alleged gun study

SayUncle » Another alleged gun study — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:13:42 +0000

[...] David Hemenway (an anti-gun hack who asserted that folks who carried guns were more likely to indulge in road rage (despite the fact that there were no notable increases in instances of road rage after states passed concealed carry laws); and refused to release his data) is at it again. This time, the hack asserts that if guns in homes cause homicides. Well, that’s not what he says specifically but that’s the impression that he wants to leave you with. Turns out, he’s wrong as usual. Jeff has the full report. He also took the exact same data and came to an entirely different conclusion, noting that Hemenway’s use of controls was just a way to get the desired result. [...]

By: ben

ben — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:02:14 +0000

yeah, please send me a copy too, at carnaby_fudge AT hotmail d0t com

thanks!

By: Justin Buist

Justin Buist — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:56:56 +0000

I’d like a copy of that study if you can email it over to me.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:34:01 +0000

It seems the study only asked people whether they had used obscene jestures, etc. An obscene jesture in itself is not “road rage” any more than a honked horn or flipping your high beams. Road rage is where you have a back and forth exchange of hostilities, escallating into a dangerous situation. I would think that the question swould properly be along the lines of; “Have you ever reacted aggressively in response to a justure?”

It’s a bigoted premise in the first place if it tries to single out people who have had a gun in the car (even once – what a joke) in the last year. Imagine the reaction to such a study that focused on the person’s ethnicity or sexual orentation.

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:43:54 +0000

Yes…we are more dangerous…to criminals.