Violent road rage caught on camera in Ontario

[Red Tornado]

You make a valid point. Hadn't thought of that.

[Ken Robb]

Originally Posted by Red Tornado

Bet their parents are real proud....

Since the attacker is 65 and the victim 74 I'm doubtful their parents are aware of what happened. Well, maybe?

[binxnyrwarrsoul]

Originally Posted by BobO

I think you're assuming too much, odds are the parents are largely dis-interested in their children's activities.

Precisely.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by rodcad

He didn't need a helmet, he needed a .357.

It was a horrifying incident, but this is Canada, so you should probably just phoque right off with your idiotic gun talk.

Not everyone in the world wants to have a society that's armed to the teeth. An armed society is not a polite society, as that remarkably stupid axiom goes (that only an American could have come up with!), but is rather a paranoid society.

Done with your moronic soapboxing on guns? Good, then I'm done with the equal and opposite reaction to your stupidity.

[gdw]

Lighten up hoser.

[justaute]

Like it. If I had my choice, the human population would definitely be lower, meaningfully lower -- especially of the male gender.

Originally Posted by William

Stop the violence = Attack the Attack.


William

[dancinkozmo]

Originally Posted by gdw

lighten up hoser.

+1

[veggieburger]

Originally Posted by rousseau

An armed society is not a polite society.....but is rather a paranoid society.

This is absolutely not true.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by veggieburger

This is absolutely not true.

Erm...okay. Except it is. Obviously. Only countries at war or experiencing societal breakdown due to crime and fractious economic injustice are as close to being as armed to the teeth as the US. I mean, you have gated communities there.

Gated communities. Think about that. Gated communities. With armed guards. And this isn't paranoid? Are you serious?

I admit I might have flown off the handle a bit, but I reacted to the idiot upthread. Casually suggesting that guns are the answer, as if the bizarre American gun culture were normative or even desirable in any other place in the world, tends to produce vehement reactions in Canadians. We live next door. We know what it's like.

No more politics from me on this.

[Louis]

In before the lock:

Only a crazy or seriously dysfunctional society is, or feels like it needs to be, armed to the teeth 24-7.

[gdw]

Ummm....weren't you the guy who was posting about buying a Ruger 10/22 across the hall? Were you planning to just have it around the house for a few hours a week or 24/7?

[Louis]

Originally Posted by gdw

Ummm....weren't you the guy who was posting about buying a Ruger 10/22 across the hall? Were you planning to just have it around the house for a few hours a week or 24/7?

A 22 to dispatch rabid or otherwise sick or injured wild animals is hardly armed to the teeth and certainly not relevant in a conversation about road rage.

[William]

Taking self protection seriously is not dysfunctional... believing you don't need to is. The Canadian trying to thump a cyclists skull with a club here is a good example.






William

[Louis]

Originally Posted by William

Taking self protection seriously is not dysfunctional... believing you don't need to is. The Canadian trying to thump a cyclists skull with a club here is a good example.

I wonder if one of these will fit in my water-bottle cage?

Yabba Dabba Don't

[gdw]

Louis
Most gun owners in the U.S. are like you. They own firearms for a variety of reasons but are not the paranoid nuts that Michael Moore and the media claim.
The armed 24/7 generalization is far from accurate.