Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!pegasus!mzal From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Violence on the roads Message-ID: <2045@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:44:47 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.2045 Posted: Mon Jan 21 13:44:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:42:48 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 20 > I am curious as to possible reasons for the alarming >level of violent behaviour during driving disputes in >the U.S. ... such as the person whose passenger caught >a bullet between the eyes because he flashed his headlights >at a guy going the other way. Personally, I don't think the level of violence is all that alarming, or all that high for that matter. It does exist, but it is overhyped by the media. (The news, when it is about people or events that I know of firsthand, is usually wrong.) How many people do you know who have been involved in accidents? How many of those accidents led to subsequent violence? On a related topic, I have noticed that guns and gun control is starting to pop up on net.auto lately. An interesting topic to debate, but isn't there a better place for it? net.legal or net.politics, maybe? -- Mike^Z [ allegra!, ihnp4! ] pegasus!mzal Zaleski@Rutgers