BoringAccountant
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Ok, let me see if this thread works as well on paper as it did this morning when I thought of it.
Here is a true story regarding life on the streets of Baltimore, MD, near where I work (fortunately far away from my home)...http://wjz.com/local/double.shooting.accident.2.664478.html
This is an example of a pretty minor incident...man cuts off other man in car, said man gets mad and exchanges words with other driver. Those drivers scream back and forth for a few blocks then decide to stop and settle it the 'ol fashioned way, fist-fighting, or so the one driver thought. The driver at fault stopped, the other car pulled along side and shot him and his female passenger to death for a minor traffic altercation, road rage. These victims had nothing prior with the other vehicle, its assumed they did not even know them prior to this, so prior motive and history is not applicable here.
Now, to the questions.
If things like this happen every day in cities all over the country, what is the solution to curb things like this? Whatever happened to the days when you would each get out and beat the piss out of each other and then move on? What has changed in society that pulling a gun and shooting someone is easier to do and seemingly all to common these days?
Some of you no doubt will say, increased gun rights will help. If the one driver had been allowed to carry easier, he may have prevented this. Sure, he may have. But why would a situation like this ever get brought to shots being fired? Others, not so much on this board, would say that guns are the problem. Take the guns away and the driver who produced the handgun would never have had it. And to that I say BS. Interjection here on my part, but I will assume the gun was not legally purchased to begin with.
Where does that leave us? What things can we do to prevent this, try and "cure" these problems?
I for one, do not think either likely solution, more gun rights or more gun control would help in such a scenario.
Basically I am at a loss for how things like this happen these days, not surprised they do, but surprised that things are escalated to shooting so quickly.
There are countless stories like this in the news here every day, man gets shot over fast food, man gets robbed and killed for his iPod, etc.
Here is a true story regarding life on the streets of Baltimore, MD, near where I work (fortunately far away from my home)...http://wjz.com/local/double.shooting.accident.2.664478.html
This is an example of a pretty minor incident...man cuts off other man in car, said man gets mad and exchanges words with other driver. Those drivers scream back and forth for a few blocks then decide to stop and settle it the 'ol fashioned way, fist-fighting, or so the one driver thought. The driver at fault stopped, the other car pulled along side and shot him and his female passenger to death for a minor traffic altercation, road rage. These victims had nothing prior with the other vehicle, its assumed they did not even know them prior to this, so prior motive and history is not applicable here.
Now, to the questions.
If things like this happen every day in cities all over the country, what is the solution to curb things like this? Whatever happened to the days when you would each get out and beat the piss out of each other and then move on? What has changed in society that pulling a gun and shooting someone is easier to do and seemingly all to common these days?
Some of you no doubt will say, increased gun rights will help. If the one driver had been allowed to carry easier, he may have prevented this. Sure, he may have. But why would a situation like this ever get brought to shots being fired? Others, not so much on this board, would say that guns are the problem. Take the guns away and the driver who produced the handgun would never have had it. And to that I say BS. Interjection here on my part, but I will assume the gun was not legally purchased to begin with.
Where does that leave us? What things can we do to prevent this, try and "cure" these problems?
I for one, do not think either likely solution, more gun rights or more gun control would help in such a scenario.
Basically I am at a loss for how things like this happen these days, not surprised they do, but surprised that things are escalated to shooting so quickly.
There are countless stories like this in the news here every day, man gets shot over fast food, man gets robbed and killed for his iPod, etc.