Road Rage at it Best - Good Grief!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

1) If this was out of character for you, would you want to be caught and dealt with publicly? It would be better for this guy to turn himself in. If he is caught, he would have many more bad days ahead. He too should be given the opportunity to learn and move on, speculating that this is a good guy that made a bad decision.

Wait...this is based on whether or not I would want to be caught? You think a serial rapist wants to get caught? You think any criminal wants to get caught? I would not want to get caught, then again I would not pack a gun in my car and shoot someone.

He is responsible for his own actions, but this was not unprovoked. Charging him with attempted murder will never address the fact that he was provoked by the idiot driver.

Using that sort of logic a LOT of criminals in prison right now for murder should go free. Most of them think they were provoked. O.J. probably thought he was provoked...

Again the idiot shooter was unharmed yet rather than just flip the other guy off or driver dangerously close to the other guys car to scare him or even brandish a weapon...HE SHOT HIM! That is NOT justified

2) I stated I am glad for both parties involved that the idiot driver was not killed.

Well good for you.

It's preposterous for some to think this, but what if it was the will of God for this to happen to the idiot driver?

What if, what if, what if....you know how dangerous that game is? What IF it was God's will to cut that driver off?

He really could have died in all of this, but God allowed him to learn a lesson instead-- that's if he learns from this.

That is a terrible way to justify something...you know a lot of idiots out there justify all kinds of terrible crimes against humanity by claiming it was God's will. Let's just deal with the facts as we know them. It was NOT justified. This was an act of revenge and it was vastly unequal.

3) Do you consider Robin Hood to be a "criminal" or a hero?

Robin hood probably would not shoot someone with an arrow, wounding them, for cutting his horse off. He is also a fantasy, but YES they guy was a criminal.

I have empathy for the demonized in this case. I am not insincere in expressing this, neither does my empathy reflect any contradiction in my mind because I know that life, sometimes, is not just cut and dry.

I KNOW you do...that is what is so scary and why I think you should not be allowed to own a steak knife, let alone a gun. Who knows what you will justify as being provoked enough to attempt to kill someone.