In a cowboy town where everybody rides a high horse, it doesn't pay to cut someone off. That's what happened late Friday night in Dallas, TX, where a man driving with his pregnant girlfriend blundered into the crosshairs of some yahoo with a grievance and a gun.
Outraged at this insult to his manhood -- we're assuming it was a man -- the second driver shot at the car, and the bullet traveled through the back driver's side door to the woman in the front passenger seat. The shooter sped away while the boyfriend turned into a gas station. Dallas Fire & Rescue took the woman to a hospital, where she delivered her baby.
The baby's fine. The mom's critical. The shooter's still at large.
The Dallas police said last week that it was stepping up its presence on the roads since the city had at least eight people shot or killed in road rage incidents in the last month. On their website, Dallas police say that 38% of road rage shootings take place in the summer.
Summer is one thing Texas has in abundance. That and guns. If the state doesn't have the highest gun-per-capita ratio in the nation, it's within shouting distance. Or will be, now that Trump-clone Governor Abbott has signed a law making it legal for gun owners to bring their weapons almost anywhere, with or without training or license.
In statistics up to 2016, though, Florida had more road rage incidents involving firearms than Texas, and bizarrely enough, an Allstate insurance study found out the safest city to drive in in the entire country is Brownsville in, yes, Texas. (The safest state is Massachusetts, and the worst drivers are in Mississippi.) The biggest predictors of road rage are (a) youth (b) being male and (c) being psychologically, um, "off" in specific ways.
None of that matters when it comes down to one hospital bed where a baby's mom is between life and death.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/06/26/texas-road-rage-suspect-shot-pregnant-women/2651624733408/?fbclid=IwAR1vTqgilmF1p-5a_a3vL4hrpQuiUBpHH6VwoT6EL1rih1Pv0vA6JbIDG-k
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