I'm not a "die hard second amendment" type of guy but since I have bought my s2000 back in May.. Never before in my life have I felt the need to actually be packing heat while I'm driving around. I've had seriously angry people cutting me off for absolutely no reason to literally having my car surrounded by 3 gangsters in the hood at a red light on my way home from work. Not the scariest but easily the most annoying thing I've found is EVERYONE wants to tailgate an s2000

 

I had a jerk do this to me years back when I had an Acura GSR. It was on a three lane street that merged down to two lanes a mile ahead. I was in the far left lane at a light, took off with the jerk in the middle lane. His truck was so slow that I merged at least 100 yards in front of him. About half a mile later I see him roaring up behind me (I guess that's how long it took him to catch up after he got mad that I "cut him off"). He starts honking and yelling, pulls around me an actually pulls his car 90 degrees in front of me like he was doing a felony stop or something.

The guy was so dumb he didn't even consider the risk of jumping out of his truck and standing DIRECTLY between my bumper and his truck's door while making an ass out of himself. He's lucky that I all I had the mood for was telling him "you're not worth the effort old man" rather than pinning him by the knees for some thoughtful contemplation.

Do these people never stop to think that some day they just might run into someone that is at least half as crazy as they are?

I just had a guy do a similar bonehead stunt just before Labor Day. It's nice that you typically only see such colossal idiots once every decade. That makes me appreciate most other drivers.

 

I'm Asian and carry a gun in my car all the time, so no, you don't have to be a redneck. You have to be a freedom lover who believes in individual responsibility and the right to self preservation. Btw, and I thought I was the only one getting revved on and getting pos cars trying to race me all the time. 90% of people floor it at the light next to me when they hear my exhaust. It's probably because of the loud exhaust and 400-500 whp set up. I have learned to ignore all of them. Some people are just looking for trouble OP, sometimes you just gotta be the bigger man and walk away bus lengths!

 

You really don't know how many people carry guns around here, and about 98% of the ones that will pull one out in a road rage incident, did not get it legally I'll tell you that. I have friends that can just make one damn phone call and is picking up a firearm in 20 minutes with a history. I rather be armed and ready. Regardless, if someone wants to shoot you, they will. You will not "talk" your way out of it, and where is your defense? Oh right, at home. Even if you cruise in the damn slow lane in LA, you still get bad mouthed and brake checked here. However, I try to refrain from carrying the firearm, instead I have a expandable baton.

 

I'm a little concerned that I appear to be the only one here that has picked up on your statement in which you refer to the other party as "white trash" Maybe I'm missing something in Transatlantic translation but I got to ask what has his skin colour got to do with his behaviour?

 

Actually, if he's in a state with the Castle Doctrine and the guy reaches in and forces entry; it's game on.