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I saw a news report about the one on the Gulf Freeway and the guy is being charged with agg. assault, as it should be. I have to admit I hate the phrase "road rage." There is no such thing as road rage; it's just a term the media coined a few years ago and unfortunately law enforcement and politicians have turned it into a nebulous buzz phrase. It's either an assault (or worse if someone is killed), or it's nothing but bad driving that may or may not be illegal.

Attaching vogue terms to acts that have been crimes for centuries is silly. If someone is assaulted in a parking lot, is that "parking lot rage?" How about a Wal-Mart? I feel the same way about the term "date rape." If a woman is raped, then it's a crime and her agreeing to dinner and a movie is neither an element of the crime, nor an element of a defense -- it's rape! (In Texas it's now sexual assault, and that too was a big mistake.)

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Sorry for the mild rant,
Chas.