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I see what you're going for, but there are a couple things;
The shooter shouldn't have had a gun or the license to drive. If his mental state was that hair-trigger it's a travesty that this combination of elements was allowed to happen.
What other response would have been appropriate? Are you suggesting we should just passively allow bullies to do whatever they want?
So, more or less — no. If you think the appropriate reaction to almost being hit by a car is to throw your hands up and run away screaming, that's the appropriate action for you. Not everyone is going to respond the same way, and being mad/lashing out about almost being critically injured is a perfectly reasonable response.
Well, choosing not to kick cars that belong to clearly dangerous people has never gotten me shot.
Honestly, I think choosing to move on is absolutely the best course of action. Kicking the car in some act of vengeance, or expression of (even justified) anger isn't going to make things better but it might make things worse. That bullet could've hit anyone in the vicinity, and even if dude hadn't pulled a gun, the car he was driving is just as deadly and has plenty of potential for collateral damage.
Like I agree with you that the shooter definitely shouldn't be driving with that mental state of his, but just because he's in the wrong doesn't make it right to escalate things such that everyone around you is in danger too.
No — there's no escalation past the guy almost hitting someone with his car. That is the point of escalation. If anything, kicking the car is a deescalation — because escalation would mean trying to kill the driver. Whether that's shooting them, beating them to death, whatever. Because that is literally the level they were brought to by the driver/ shooter.
You're essentially victim blaming by trying to suggest that the guy who kicked the car contributed to the escalation.
That being said, of course the best course of action is to leave. Not everyone is ok with almost dying and not giving the person who did it a piece of your mind. Unfortunately it played out like it did.
I mean, his death is not his own fault, and I'm not trying to say otherwise. This was murder, plain and simple. But kicking the car was still stupid, pointless and dangerous. Encouraging other people to follow this guy's example is pointless, stupid, and dangerous.
Absolutely not. If I were to extrapolate from your logic and follow it I'd never go outside because clearly the intelligent and safe thing to do is just never go outside.
Seriously, you are just wrong here. There will never be a world where kicking someone's car after they almost hit you with it warrants being shot. It should not even occur to you to be something you can't do, it is that far below the point the driver/shooter had already brought it to. To call it escalation means that you either don't understand the meaning of the word or have alterior motives for dying on this hill.