More on guns and the lack of road rage
Chaos in Motion has a lot more on the study as does the Geek, who does it with a flow chart.
Says Nicki:
Several things (other than the authors’ history of bias against guns and gun owners) struck me. One was their blatant misrepresentation of the definition of road rage. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, road rage is defined as “an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s) of another motor vehicle or vehicles precipitated by an incident, which occurred on a roadway.” Road rage is violent. It is an assault. It is dangerous, criminal behavior, according to NHTSA and Richard Wark, Roy Lucke and Richard Raub of the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety.
February 5th, 2006 at 2:08 am
I started reading that study earlier today then dropped it because life calls, but my head was spinning after just reading a bit of it.
By ‘carrying a gun in the car’ they mean you’ve done it ONCE in the past year. That doesn’t make any sense. No questions were posed with regards to participants behavior WHILE carrying a gun in the car.
The second thing I noticed is non-whites are as likely to act aggresively as somebody that carried a gun in the car sometime in the past year. Obviously THAT datapoint just fell on the floor because it didn’t support their cause.
Shockingly, people that drive more are more likely to get ticked off on the road! Who’d have thunk it. Young people are also more likely to whip somebody the bird than the 60+ crowd. Shocking!
Here’s a hypothesis for them to ponder upon: Maybe gun owners that carry guns with them actually care about their lives and like to let people know then they’re driving in a manner that’s dangerous to others?
February 7th, 2006 at 9:43 am
I did a bit more detailed analysis it anyone is bored.
http://chaosinmotion.blogspot.com/2006/02/guns-and-road-rage-study.html