The Left's View of Road Rage

Here's a tragic incident:

A man lifting his infant daughter out of his car was killed in an apparent case of road rage by a motorist "who obviously exploded" and shot him four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.

The victim's 10-month-old girl was covered with blood but uninjured when police found her in a car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

Walter R. Bishop, 60, who was taking medication for depression, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Sandro Andrade. He pleaded innocent and was ordered held without bail; a hearing was scheduled for Aug. 26.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Bishop had made a calculated decision to "shoot a man in cold blood in broad daylight on the streets of Brockton."

Police Chief Paul Studenski described it as a case of road rage.

Bishop's attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Andrade had provoked his client during a traffic altercation.

"We have a homicide that resulted from a circumstance where somebody picked a fight with an individual who obviously exploded," Reddington said. Bishop, a former soldier and security guard, had recently begun taking two medications for depression, he said.

Bishop told investigators he was driving his wife to the train station when Andrade's vehicle backed toward him on Main Street, Cruz said. The two exchanged heated words.

"He said his wife was scared, and he said he was angry at that encounter," Cruz said of Bishop. "He said he made up his mind right there that he had to do something."

After dropping his wife off, he allegedly returned to the scene of the confrontation, pointed a handgun through an open window and fired, police said.

"Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Four shots. It sounded like a cap gun," Louis McPhee, the manager of a car wash across the street, told The Boston Globe. "The guy was lying there in his own blood with a hole in his head and his arm still on the baby."

Bishop left before police arrived, but witnesses gave investigators his license plate number and police found him at his home.

Police said Bishop has a valid handgun license.

Now if I were a moonbat drenched in silly opposition to fighting a war we didn't start, I might ask the following questions of this story:

1. What did the victim do to contribute to this tragedy?
2. Is not backing a car up a busy street with a baby in it not the act of an impulsive cowboy?
3. How do we know that the man didn't stage the whole thing and shoot himself?
4. Where was Karl Rove when this happened?
5. Shouldn't the victim have tried to appease the older man, or perhaps sought third-party mediation?
6. How do we know the older man had a gun? Did Hans Blix say so? El Baradei? Scott Ritter?
7. Why did the victim have the window down?
8. Who's the real victim here?
9. Was the older man upset about the Palestinian plight?
10. Is that why he was on antidepressants?
11. Speaking of antidepressants, if Big Pharmacology gave them away, perhaps this man wouldn't have lost it.
12. Why hasn't Bush done anything to stop this?
13. The man needs anger management therapy, not jail. Where's Oprah?

And so on.

If the terrorists who want to kill us are nothing but criminals, and should be dealt with through the legal system, it stands to reason that the Lefty spineless appeaser nutjobs would see this horrible crime much like the above.

What kind of animal shoots a man in cold blood with his baby right there?

The kind of animal they ought to be strapping into Ol' Sparky right now.

But of course, we mustn't treat the uncivilized in a less-than-civilized manner, now.

As with Main Street, so with Baghdad.