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The number of shooting incidents stemming from road rage doubled in five years, from 218 in 2018 to 483 in 2023,from Everytown for Gun Safety, a prominent gun law reform group. The figure amounts to a driver opening fire at someone in traffic every 18 hours.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan Feldman shows the jury a 9 millimeter handgun in a Santa Ana, California, courtroom on Jan. 18, 2024, that he alleged was used when the defendant shot at a car in 2021, killing a 6-year-old.But road rage shootings remained elevated last year compared with 2018, even as violent crime in general dropped at a faster rate. The group’s research pointed to the proliferation of laws allowing permitless carry as a possible explanation.
Permitless carry states saw a rate of road rage violence of 1.89 per million residents — about three times higher than states with stricter gun control laws.“Aggressive driving happens in every country,” Burd Sharps told HuffPost. “But only in the United States is someone shot every 18 hours in a road rage incident.”
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