[lbo-talk] road rage

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Kelley:
> i crap you negative, a woman pulled a gun on starshine today while driving
> on a different road. she got away, but sonshine got the license plate
> number. they picked her up at home. She had a concealed carry permit --
but
> you still can't brandish a gun with a CCW.
> 
> sonshine was talking to the cop who said, "same darn thing happened last
> week. some middle eastern guy."
> 
> sonshine: "driving an audi? that was me!"
> 

This seems to fit the pattern that the criminologist Dane Archer described a
while ago.  Violence increases following a war, even a victorious one.
Archer explanation is that government use of violence "trickles down" so to
speak and legitimizes the use of violence among ordinary citizens.  

Wojtek