[jsmith48]

The only thing this study shows is that gun owners are more honest. Only 168 more gun owners than non-gun owners out of a total population of 2400 admitted to making rude gestures, which is a pretty small number- 7% of the study's population.

The gun owners may also have NRA or Bush stickers on their vehicles, which makes them more prone to harassment by other motorists. The results could also be influenced by the researcher's selection of participants (i.e., they may only have picked guys wearing trucker hats at the local tavern).

[marktwain]

Did they segregate the study by sex? Many more men are gun owners than women, also men are more likely ,IMHO, to use offensive hand signals. I would bet that if you segregated for sex that you would find the gun carriers to be more polite.

Also, was this a national study? Was it done in urban vs rural areas? Hemingway is known for his sampling bias, as I recall.

I am pretty sure that at one symposium that I was at, he argued that bill of rights included "collective rights" because the "right to assemble" must be collective, therefore the 2nd amendment was a collective right.

[JTHomes]

Lot's of bias potential. What if men are more likely to carry a gun than women and men are also more likely to rage? Could turn out that male gun owners are less likely than men in general to rage.