{"id":720,"date":"2015-07-27T20:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/unsystematictheology\/?p=720"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:19:29","slug":"the-real-fury-road-americas-got-a-road-rage-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unsystematictheology\/2015\/07\/the-real-fury-road-americas-got-a-road-rage-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real “Fury Road”: America’s Got a Road Rage Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

America has a rage problem. Often, it\u2019s a road rage problem.<\/p>\n

America has a gun problem, too.<\/p>\n

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Rage and guns are a bad combination.<\/p>\n

I was horrified to read this story about a Florida man <\/a>who killed another man because of a road rage conflict. That\u2019s right: a man was killed because of a driving dispute.<\/p>\n

The crazy thing is, they were both apparently on the phone with 9-11 before it happened. One driver, Candelerio Gonzalez, followed the other driver, Robert Doyle, to Doyle\u2019s home. At the house, Doyle got out of his car with his pulled gun, and shot Gonzalez, killing him in front of his wife, daughter, and grandson. And in front of Doyle\u2019s family, too, apparently.<\/p>\n

Granted, when we\u2019re flying down the road behind two tons of steel, glass, and plastic, tensions are going to be a bit high. But this rage bubbling beneath the surface, ready to explode at any moment when we feel we\u2019ve been wronged, seems to evidence something much deeper than normal stress.<\/p>\n

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety tells us that road rage incidents have increased by 7% every year since 1990. That\u2019s a remarkable rise in rage. The AAA website<\/a> also tells us that<\/p>\n