chapotraphouse

I flipped a guy off two or three weeks ago because he blew through a four way stop and almost got either of us killed. Well he did a u turn and blew through the stop again and followed me home and yelled at me about how I "shouldn't do that because dangerous people will hurt me" and I asked if he was warning me or threatening me and he said "I'm threatening you" and then shoved me against my car before trying to run me over while I got his license plate number

I still haven't gone to the cops and a small part of why is everybody acts like I'm the fucking asshole. "You shouldn't have done that" from my girlfriend, brother, parents. FUCK YOU. I made a rude gesture because someone did something dangerous that could have gotten someone killed. I'm not the fucking asshole here. Maybe if I weren't male I'd get more sympathy but instead it's like "woops you fucked around and found out" and it's my fault instead of this person being utterly fucking insane.

Sightly related to the road rage stuff.

I tend to drive very conservatively when it comes to acceleration. I have a hybrid and I love getting 50-60mpg, plus I find that my slow acceleration often makes it so I don't get caught at red lights; all the while people who punch it end up hurrying up only to wait. So and way, had a guy in an F150 passing me pretty aggressively recently, but as he does so I hear a scraping and banging sound. I look left to see his kayak skidding down the road next to me.

Oh but the second someone nominally leftie shoots a republican fascist at a baseball game everyone wants gun control. Not when a white boater kulak shoots a black mom of three in the back for being rude to him at a gas station.

The fact that "road rage shootings" are a thing in the US is so fucked up. You can just get executed in broad daylight by a random lunatic because both of you are so alienated from one another through your individual metal boxes that a mild annoyance is enough for people to reach for a lethal weapon.

The quote comes from a science fiction novel called 'Beyond This Horizon.' Written by Robert A. Heinlein.

In the book, the government encourages particular couples to wed because of eugenics. A waiter spilling soup in a restaurant leads to a gunfight.

Heinlein loved throwing crazy idea around.

An armed society is a dictatorship by the trigger-happy

It's stressful how mad everyone in Texas is too. Especially while driving. If they're delayed 5 seconds, it's grounds for a shouting and slurs. If they're delayed 1 minute or more, a gun comes out. Everyone here needs to go as fast as possible while visibly armed.

I was fixing my bike on the sidewalk in a suburb about a year ago and two guys with guns came out to threaten me, told me I was acting suspicious. I have a feeling if I weren't white I'd have been shot. I've also had drivers in big trucks tap me from behind while biking.

My cousin once shot at a lost driver who was simply using his driveway to turn around. He carries an actual SMG to meet UPS at the door too. Everyone's paranoid that a civil war will erupt at any moment. Pure narcissistic lily white panic.

I'm feeling fight or flight levels of anxiety just reading the replies here.

Holy shit America....

I'm glad I don't live there and live in a normal society where life isn't a parody of Grand Theft Auto.

The only thing that stops a good guy with a gun is a bad guy with a gun

He could just get a gun if he’s afraid everyone’s gonna walk all over him for being a wuss.