New Scientist News - Gun-toting motorists more prone to road rage: "Gun-toting motorists more prone to road rage
* 03 February 2006
* From New Scientist Print Edition
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GUN lobbyists like to repeat the quote often attributed to American writer Robert Heinlein, that 'an armed society is a polite society'. But this is certainly not true for motorists.
A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that motorists who carry guns in their cars are far more likely to indulge in road rage - driving aggressively or making obscene gestures - than motorists without guns. Some 23 per cent of gun-toting drivers admitted making rude signs, compared with 16 per cent of those who did not carry guns (Accident Analysis and Prevention,"
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