Carrying a firearm and road rage

[Mark]

The responsibility changes you. It has to. You start thinking differently about what you're willing to let escalate and what you're just going to let go and the answer almost every time is that you let it go. Some guy cuts you off and you just breathe and keep driving because you already know how high the stakes are and it's not worth a single second of your energy.

The person carrying should be the calmest person in every room, that's not a rule somebody made up. It's just what the responsibility asks of you.

 

[Alan]

Yeah, that’s the real shift most people don’t talk about, once you understand the stakes, your tolerance for pointless escalation drops fast. It just becomes easier to let things go and keep moving.

 

[Logic]

The responsibility changes you. It has to. You start thinking differently about what you're willing to let escalate and what you're just going to let go and the answer almost every time is that you let it go. Some guy cuts you off and you just breathe and keep driving because you already know how high the stakes are and it's not worth a single second of your energy.

The person carrying should be the calmest person in every room, that's not a rule somebody made up. It's just what the responsibility asks of you.

I agree with that. Carrying a firearm means accepting a higher level of responsibility and that often means swallowing your pride in situations that aren't worth escalating. The best outcome in a road rage incident is usually to disengage, create distance and move on. Staying calm isn't weakness, it's good judgment.

 

[Buzzer]

I just don’t engage anymore at all. Not worth thinking about. If someone cuts me off, I just turn the radio up.

 

[axeslinger]

Yeah there are a lot of jackasses out there. Guess high schools quit teaching drivers ed. The snowflakes think that if they have their turn signal on you have to yield regardless of the situation. That's why I go early and get home before their alarm goes off at 11AM. I-79 between Morgantown and Clarksburg (both directions) is like a shooting gallery with vehicles.

 

[Creeker]

Road rage is certainly real. I found long ago, challenge for challenge usually just gets worse & worse. So, I don't do tit for tat.