Here is my one experience with "road rage" I was driving on a rural road near the Mississippi River. I came to a stop sign where I stopped to make a left turn. Behind me I hear the screeching of tires and a loud thump, I looked back to see that a large car had not seen me stop had panic braked then run up on the median and was stuck over a road sign it had hit and bent over. I was about to get out to see if they were OK when a young man (there were 4 or 5 "thugs" in the car) jumped out with a pipe in his hand and came swearing towards my car. I was still in my car which had not been touched by the other car, no traffic was coming so I simply drove away before he got to me. I have no doubt that if they had hit my car, or if for some reason I couldn't have driven off I'd have been in for a bad beating, or worse, by this group. I didn't have a gun in the car then but do now!
Steve W