Bill talk pt6
Evening everyone, welcome to the new megathread featuring my bill talks. I am your host Sharkfish82 alongside my current co-host @jasonbourneaxis. Today, we will be talking about the bill “A Bill to define Road Rage as Assault”.
First off, let’s read the preamble:
“In Real Life, road rage falls under assault and battery in most states. Firestone Citizens should be able to rely on this bill if passed, as Road Rage happens everyday within the County.”
Ok, so they are trying to add another definition to assault, why not make an amendment to the most recent adaptation of assault/vehicular assault then a whole separate bill to classify it as assault? Wouldn’t that be easier?
Now, onto the definition: “Road Rage shall be defined as: An aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by a driver of a road vehicle. These behaviors include physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted toward another driver or a pedestrian in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.”
There are already preexisting charges you could charge someone for all of these examples:
Physical threats? Conspiracy to commit a crime
Dangerous driving? Dangerous driving
If they hit them? Vehicular assault
If they miss them? Reckless driving (possibly even attempted murder)
The next section then states:
“In the event of a Road Rage, there must be Witness or Physical Evidence. The victim must feel threatened in any sort of way, or be in imminent danger.”
Huh? There is already something called probable cause. I really don’t see why this had to be added as I believe this should be common knowledge if you are conducting an arrest.
Now, the charges if you conduct this:
1st-2nd time: 100-150 dollar cite
3rd+: Max of 360 seconds
Ok so, lemme get this right, a man is physically making threats, trying to hit someone and such and I can only be like “oh lemme give you a cite don’t do that again!” for the first 2 times? This confuses me quite a bit. Why don’t you use the same charges you would use for vehicular assault which this bill is mostly aiming towards as you are using a vehicle to try and hit someone or make threats to hit them with the car. To me for this type of crime, always make it optional to choose between a cite or an arrest depending on the severity.
Anyways, I digress and I suggest that congress doesn’t pass this bill. As always, feel free to discuss.
Shark boi out 
Link to bill: A Bill to define Road Rage as Assault