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For you obscure sci fi buffs.

Lester Del Rey wrote an excellent short story on this entitled "Why Johnny Can't Speed." I have never been able to find a copy of it.

In essence, it is based on the premise that you have to defend yourself on the highway and the government is not able to do the job.

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Lester Del Rey wrote an excellent short story on this entitled "Why Johnny Can't Speed." I have never been able to find a copy of it.

Possibly because you've been looking for the wrong author. Try Alan Dean Foster....

The story originally ran in Galaxy in the September, 1971 issue, and you might find a used bookseller with a copy, or one might turn up on eBay.

It also was included in at least two Sci-Fi anthologies: Don Wollheim's 1972 Annual World’s Best SF, from DAW, 1972 and in a collection entitled With Friends Like These from Ballantine in 1977.

More ADF info *here*.

[archy]

Lester Del Rey wrote an excellent short story on this entitled "Why Johnny Can't Speed." I have never been able to find a copy of it.

Possibly because you've been looking for the wrong author. Try Alan Dean Foster....

The story originally ran in Galaxy in the September, 1971 issue, and you might find a used bookseller with a copy, or one might turn up on eBay.

It also was included in at least two Sci-Fi anthologies: Don Wollheim's 1972 Annual World’s Best SF, from DAW, 1972 and in a collection entitled With Friends Like These from Ballantine in 1977.

More ADF info *here*.

[Puppage]

The American people have become convinced that the police can protect them from bad guys like the Ohio shooter

The police arrive in time to rope off the area & take photos of lifeless bodies.