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CMV: People convicted of a road-rage related offence should be banned from driving for a substantial amount of time.

Road rage has become a huge problem in this country (USA). The solution i'm thinking would work would be to make it mandatory for these people's liscences to be taken away for a substantial period of time (months, years or permanently for the worst and/or repeat offenders). I have been personally affected by others commiting road rage... I think an example might help. Heres a short story of when i was affected by a road rage incident as an example:

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When i first started driving years and years ago. I was a pretty frightened and overly cautious kind of a driver. To the annoyence of everyone else on the road, I had decided that going 5 mph under the speed limit everywhere i drove was a wise idea (it was dumb). Well, so one day i was driving down a back road doing 20 mph on a 25 mph speed limit stretch of road like i usually did (there was a train of about 10 cars behind me at one point). So i get to an intersection after about 10 minutes of driving and this guy pulls up next to me and starts screaming about i had so inconvienienced him by my slow driving.  It was terrifying. And just when one would think a situation like that could not get any worse... my friend who was sitting in the passanger seat decides to flip the guy off. Oh man, he went from screaming, to sounding like a screeching unhinged diabolical entity of some description. It was beyond terrifying. At one point he even blocked my car in (false imprisonment in my juristiction)  so he could countinue to screech at me (couldnt understand anything he was saying) for several more minutes.  This horrific behavior and harrassment of his went on until I yelled the apparently magic-to-his-ego word "Sorry!". This defused the situation and he finally let me drive off and escape from his harrasment.

\---end of story---

My view with that is: No matter how much of a turtle-power driver I admittably was at the time.... I or anyone else do not deserve to be cruely harrassed by some angry dude who has no business behind the wheel of a car.  Why cant guys like that simply have their liscense taken away? I think if the guy who falsely imprisioned and verbally assaulted me had his liscense taken away for say.... one year. I bet 100 dollars that he is never going to mistreat another driver again.... Of course there is also the consideration that even unreasonably angry people need a way of getting to and from work, the grocery store, the gym, etc. But then again can't Mr. Angry just take public tranportation or ride a bike for a year?   I mean, it would be hard to feel sorry for them when they brought it upon themselves. And honestly i think they could learn a lesson from it... that or they will only become angrier and angrier and soon become now known as Mr. Very Angry or something (hard to say, really.. not everyone is wise enough to learn from their mistakes i guess \*sigh\*)

Of course what if within that year Mr. Angry goes and does some yoga and takes anger managemnt classes... should his liscense be given back early? Or is it more important to protect society from his potential for anger problems behind the wheel?

And if Mr. angry gets his liscense back after a year and then gets back on the road... Good for him! But if Mr. Angry decides to commit another act of road rage... maybe then his liscense should then be taken away permanantly to protect society and other drivers from his apparently incurable anger problem?

Also yes i am aware that road ragers do sometimes get sentanced by judges in court to be banned from driving for certain and significant periods of time.  But my view is a little different in that I think that a very long ban or permanent ban should be automatic and mandatory even for first-time road ragers.

I just want my overall road experience to be peaceful and calm and i'm sure that is what most others want.

My overall view at this point is that banning road ragers from the road for significantly long amounts of time would be benificial for me and other calm and collected road users.
gpt
A study done in Florida in the 90 showed that people going too slow were more of a problem than people speeding. It leads to min speed limits in many places. So it is all about perspective. The reality is people will drive without a license because frankly we need to do so to get to work in so many cases.

The real fix is people learning to handle life differently and not provoke each other. If you're not comfortable going the speed limit then don't drive that road. And if some one gets aggressive walk away.