Earlier by Steve Sailer: Road Rage Shootings Soar During The Racial Reckoning

Granted, I’ve been writing a lot about the connection between the increase in murders and the increase in traffic fatalities since George Floyd’s death. But, basically, nobody else has noticed it. And it’s worth paying attention to because it sheds so much light on how the world works.

From the NBC News opinion section:

A very American road rage shooting crisis

The increasingly deadly effects of Covid psychology mixed with millions of guns.

April 17, 2022, 2:30 AM PDT
By Joan M. Cook, clinical psychologist

Words not mentioned include “black,” “African-American,” “George Floyd,” “racial reckoning,” “protests,” and so forth. My guess is that Joan M. Cook, like most commentators, has probably never noticed that shootings by blacks exploded after George Floyd’s death. She almost certainly doesn’t know about the explosion in bad driving by blacks that began in June 2020.

Similarly, from the New York Times news section:

Angry Drivers, Lots of Guns: An Explosion in Road Rage Shootings

Dozens have been reported in Texas alone amid a pandemic surge in gun purchases and a country increasingly on edge.

By J. David Goodman
April 12, 2022

HOUSTON — The trouble started with an argument between two drivers merging in slow traffic after an Astros baseball game last summer. It ended with two gunshots, fired from a moving Buick and exploding through the glass of a fleeing Ford pickup truck.

The bullets missed the truck’s driver, Paul Castro, but one — just one — struck his teenage son, David, who sat in the passenger seat. As Mr. Castro drove to get help, a 911 operator told him to apply pressure to the wound at the back of his son’s head. But David did not make it.

The random pointlessness of the killing shocked Houston. But it was one of dozens of similar incidents across the country over the past year amid an explosion of shootings and killings attributed to rage on the road.

… The prevalence of such violence, not just in Texas but around the country, suggests a cultural commonality, an extreme example of deteriorating behavior that has also flared on airplanes and in stores. It is as if the pandemic and the nation’s sour mood have left people forgetting how to act in public at the same time as they were buying millions more weapons.

“It’s the same sort of ball of wax: People getting frustrated, feeling strained and acting out toward others,” said Charis E. Kubrin, a criminologist at the University of California, Irvine. “One thing that we do know is that there has been a huge rise in gun sales,” she added.

… For its report on an increase in road rage shootings, the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety relied on the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that compiles data from government sources and media reports. The group found that more than 500 people had been injured or killed in reported road rage shootings last year, up from fewer than 300 in 2019.

… After letting several cars merge into his lane, Mr. Castro began to pull forward in his pickup. That is when a white Buick attempted to edge into the lane, he said.

Have you noticed how extremely important it has become recently for the media to tell us the color of white cars? What could possibly be more germane than that the car of the shooter was white? The color of the shooter himself is of course of no interest whatsoever to the New York Times, but his Buick being white is an important clue.

Neither yielded ground; eventually the two cars were touching. There was a “verbal altercation,” according to a court record.

… On the highway, the Buick started flashing its lights and honking, Mr. Castro said. “I tried to get away and he stayed right behind me,” Mr. Castro said. As he took a turnaround lane under a highway, he heard two shots. The rear window shattered. David, seated in the passenger seat, was struck in the back of the head.

“I just started screaming. And he kept chasing us,” Mr. Castro said. “This was not a road rage incident — this was a grown man who took the life of a child because his feelings got hurt.”

The police eventually made an arrest in the case, charging Gerald Wayne Williams, 35, with murder.

Gerald Wayne Williams? That’s an interesting name for a Houston shooter.

When I was at Rice U. in Houston in the late 1970s, a friend told me that Houston cops had told him that whenever they tried to arrest a suspect, the arrestee would swear it was another man who committed the crime. The whites would all say, “It wasn’t me, dude, it was Wayne.” (Are white lowlifes named after John Wayne? Or are they descended from Mad Anthony Wayne?) And the blacks would all say, “It wasn’t me, man, it was Charles Williams.”

So, the cops concluded, if they could just find Wayne and Charles Williams, they could eliminate all crime in Houston.

So, Gerald Wayne Williams struck me as a name very much up for grabs.

But it’s not the 1970s anymore, it’s 2022 during the Racial Reckoning.

So here’s Gerald Wayne Williams.

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