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From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Violence on the roads
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:44:47 EST
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>    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