'Road rage' leaves two drivers dead

[MichaelHarris]

"Two drivers are dead after a "road rage" incident in the Ionia, Mich., area escalated into a shootout....Both men had licenses to carry concealed weapons, according to authorities."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/19/road-rage-michigan/2841069/

[ileus]

1. emotion based outcomes are never good.

Keep calm and carry on.

[Duckhunter935]

2. everygroup of people

has a very small percentage of problem children. How many CCL holders did not do this?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I don't know how many cc's there are but, isn't it estimated that there are eighty million

gun owners in the USA ...

[ileus]

5. Well I can speak for about 50 or 60

maybe more if I actually started writing down names of folks I know have CHP's.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Anger Management Issues along with a lot of other psychological matters need to be dealt with

in this country. People need to learn healthy ways of releasing their anger.

[ManiacJoe]

6. Wow. The longer this story runs,

the worse the journalism gets....

[MichaelHarris]

10. once charged with having concealed weapon while drunk

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"One of the two men who died Wednesday in a road-rage related shootout was charged in 2006 with carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence of liquor....the charges surrounding the concealed pistol were dismissed and it was never referred to the county's concealed weapons board for action"

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/09/robert_taylor_killed_in_double.html

[gejohnston]

12. It is on those county officials to do their jobs

that isn't a national problem. Just because some Michigan county does things half assed and New York has no standards at all isn't a reflection on the other states.

[ManiacJoe]

13. That quote does not appear in the incredibly short article you linked to.

Found the link you were attempting:
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/09/robert_taylor_killed_in_double.html

A better link with more details:
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/09/mother_who_witnessed_fatal_sho.html

[sarisataka]

7. So we now have

twelve threads on this LBN(3), GD(6), GCRA(1), GC&RKBA(1), Video and Multimedia(1)- I think that is more than the SNAP vote

Chicago shooting wounds 13- 5, including one self-identified dupe in LBN and one pointing out the lack of attention of DU it has received

Police officer killed during domestic in Indianapolis- 1

Does anyone else find this distribution strange?

[petronius]

8. Perhaps this particular story has that good-old

'Heh heh, gunnerz R stoopid!' sort of appeal. It's generally OK to cackle about death when the right people are dead in the right way, I suppose.

But more generally, you'll go mad trying to understand the distribution of topics on DU (or any other board). Topics that should be hugely important won't make a ripple, while trivial nonsense will run into the 100s. (Confession - three of my posts today are giggling over chemtrails.) One post will sink like a stone, while a nearly-identical post a few hours later will blow up into a hurricane. There might be a dissertation topic here, but it's beyond me...

[sarisataka]

9. There are three categories of death

An innocent person- that is a tragedy
A criminal- executed by a person who has been itching to murder someone
A armed citizen- that's pretty funny, but he had it coming and his family should be grateful

I am glad not all believe this matrix, though it seems far too many do, and I hope those who generally remain silent believe every death is a tragedy.

OTH I had a poster tell me he would he cheers when police are killed and would advocate violence against them but he knows it would get him banned.

[Eleanors38]

14. Not strange at all. On DU.

[MichaelHarris]

11. once charged with having concealed weapon while drunk

"One of the two men who died Wednesday in a road-rage related shootout was charged in 2006 with carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence of liquor....the charges surrounding the concealed pistol were dismissed and it was never referred to the county's concealed weapons board for action"

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/09/robert_taylor_killed_in_double.html

[Eleanors38]

15. The numbers are HUGE for this type of incident. HUGE!

[oneshooter]

16. Did you ever find the guy with the AK?

[MichaelHarris]

17. maybe he moved to Chicago

A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle opened fire on a pickup basketball game

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-multiple-victims-shooting-20130921,0,7774815.story