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According to a recent survey in the United States, a person is shot every 18 hours in a road rage incident. From 2014 to 2023, there was a 400% increase in road rage shootings, leading to a total of 3095 people shot and 777 fatalities. Georgia has seen a significant rise in road rage shootings, jumping from zero in 2014 to 197 in 2023. Atlanta is a hotspot for such incidents due to collisions, near-misses, or other illegal driving behaviors triggering the shootings. Southern states like Georgia have a higher likelihood of road rage shootings due to lax gun control laws, with states not requiring gun permits having three times higher incident rates. The top states for road rage incidents involving firearms during 2014-2023 were Texas with 741, Florida with 488, California with 321, Tennessee with 263, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with 201 each, Georgia and Michigan with 197 each, Arizona with 164, Ohio with 160, North Carolina with 155, and Missouri with 154 cases.
Source: YAHOO