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.
February 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Yes…we are more dangerous…to criminals.
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:34 pm
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.
February 4th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I’d like a copy of that study if you can email it over to me.
February 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
yeah, please send me a copy too, at carnaby_fudge AT hotmail d0t com
thanks!
January 15th, 2007 at 10:13 am
[…] 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. […]