Washington: After a driver who quickly cuts it suddenly on the California highway in May, Joanna Clooni pointed roughly towards the car.
Passengers won a gun and opened fire on his vehicle, killing his six-year-old son in the back seat.
A woman in Texas was shot behind last week while protecting her seven-year-old daughter from a shot towards their vehicle, and another driver in Kentucky recovered from a gunshot wound that was supported after the argument involving the parking lot.
The Road Rage incident involving a gun has been responsible for recording the level of injury and death in the United States since the commencement of the Covid-19 Pandemic, according to a recent report from Everytown for weapons safety, non-profit who oppose arms violence.
Data shows that traffic skirmishes involving firearms has increased since 2018, and the report said that “If the current trend continues, 2021 is on track to be the deadliest year on the record.” Pandemic, which introduces many new sources of stress to the lives of the people, has also seen a record of increasing weapons and shootings, said Everytown.
Ryan Martin, an anger researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, told AFP that “only the existence of a life-threatening disease placing people on the edge, when the frustration they met would be rather light two years ago.” In the country where the right to carry weapons with fiercely guarded, weapons independence enlarged the problem, according to Martin, a professor of psychology.
The firearms are “driving factors in various ways because it gives you a deadly mechanism to act anger,” he said.
“Data also shows that having a gun in the car with you makes you more likely to be angry.
This is called a weapon effect.” American attitudes individually may also be blamed.
“The individualism we see in the US might worsen a lot of anger response.
There is a sense of entitled to the way Americans tend to think about freedom,” Martin said.
Martin and Emotional Management Specialist Pauline Wallin suggested that deep political divisions also contribute to violence.
Wallin, a psychologist based in Pennsylvania, said that because Americans are increasingly polarized, someone who cut traffic is more likely to be seen as “enemy” than “discomfort”.
“We are more likely to blame others for what happens,” he said.
“This is another person …
It’s all about narcissism.” Even the security measures of the pandemic such as the mask became framed as a political debate under former President Donald Trump, and the split divisive messaging was not lost with his government, Wallin said.
“Bad Frustration Management” was a mistake for most of the incidents of road anger, according to a psychologist.
“You have to breath deeply.
You have to calm down because you can’t think logically when you are very upset,” he said.
“Ask yourself, will this happen tomorrow? Within a week?” Martin said the driver must realize that being involved in an aggressive and hostile way “will not be a positive result.”
Weapons, Stress, and Politics: US Road Rage Shooting Rises
