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

John Lott has an update on the study that tries to intimate that drivers with guns in their car are more dangerous and notes that Hemenway refuses to provide his data.

Update: BTW, I have a copy of the study if anyone wants it.

5 Responses to “More on guns and road rage (or the lack of)”

  1. Blake Says:

    Yes…we are more dangerous…to criminals.

  2. Lyle Says:

    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.

  3. Justin Buist Says:

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

  4. ben Says:

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

    thanks!

  5. SayUncle » Another alleged gun study Says:

    […] 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. […]

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