I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?

[henryp]

This is a silly side thing, but real life is not Speed.  

If you see a hitchhiker, you accelerate to 60, throw open the passenger door, let them try and hop in.  Then blow through stop signs, traffic lights, and maybe drive up on sidewalks, until they get to their destination, at which point they have to open the door, and thunderoll out of the speeding car?

Hey, that's exactly how I envisioned it happening!

No, wait, that's simply a caricature. You see, here in America, we have long, open spaces that are traversed by these things we call highways -- you may have heard of those. That is where what few hitchhikers you see any more try to get rides, because cities have buses. Anyway, on those highways, the speed-limits run anywhere from forty-five to eighty mph.

Now if a hitchiker happens to have his gun at the ready, I usually just, y'know, keep on driving. Because getting in at sixty is, as you pointed out, difficult. Problem solved, right?

Now, let's see if you can winnow my point here or not.

(For future reference, I prefer polite discussion, and will be happy to drop the sarcasm provided you can manage that yourself.)

It's hard not to be sarcastic, because you're being silly. I do not have the ability to straight faced say "What if, instead of waving his gun around while trying to get picked up, he has it hidden, and only pulls it when he gets in the car?"  It would be insulting of me to think you really couldn't come up with that on your own.