Florida Politician (Gun Nut) Killed in Road Rage Incident

[Suburban Warrior]

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/485132-john-kuczwanski-killed-in-road-rage-incident/

Kuczwanski was arrested for a separate road rage incident at the same intersection in 2014.

John Kuczwanski, the Legislative Affairs Director for the State Board of Administration, was killed last week in what appeared to be a shootout during a road rage incident north of Tallahassee.

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office took one person into custody after the Jan. 6 events, however that person has since been released and no charges have been filed, according to a Thursday LCSO news release.

The office issued an initial statement reporting a fatal shooting that occurred last Thursday, shortly after 5 p.m., near the intersection of Bannerman Road and Thomasville Road, following an altercation between two drivers. Thursday’s release confirmed Kuczwanski was killed in the incident. The investigation into what occurred is still ongoing.

[PatSeg]

1. "A Florida man..........."

Sigh, yet again.

Interesting that a person was in custody and then released without charges.

[NNadir]

38. ++++, my first thought too. Nt

[samsingh]

44. stand your ground against a repug

[TheBlackAdder]

47. Florida man effed up. He was supposed to only intimidate out-of-staters who aren't carrying.

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I have family down there and haven't been there in several years. FL gets no more money from me.

I've noticed a weird trend visiting there 3-4 times a year. If you drive with out-of-state plates the drivers are more prone to fuck with you on a daily basis. If you drive with in-state plates, they generally don't start any conflicts at all. Same class of car, same driver, just the plates were different. I attributed this to the CCW and SYG laws.

It got to the point where I would only rent a car that had Florida plates on them, until I said, "Fuck FL."

.

[PatSeg]

50. That's interesting

and totally believable. I don't blame you for staying away from Florida. It is like another country, close to a third world country in many respects.

[dalton99a]

2. He asked for it.

Sources familiar with details of the investigation told Florida Politics that Kuczwanski apparently caused the auto accident that began the chain of events, and that he began the shootout that led to his own death.

The sources said the incident began after Kuczwanski’s BMW drifted out of its lane while heading north on Thomasville Road. The BMW hit a white Prius.

Both cars pulled into a parking lot. The driver of the Prius confronted Kuczwanski about hitting him, the sources said. The Prius’ driver got in his car to wait for law enforcement after confronting Kuczwanski. That is when, according to Florida Politics’ sources, Kuczwanski rammed his BMW into the Prius on the driver’s door, and began pushing the car sideways in the parking lot.

Kuczwanski then shot a gun at the white Prius, according to the sources. The Prius driver drew a gun and fired back into the windshield of Kuczwanski’s BMW. Kuczwanski was hit and killed, according to the sources.

[FSogol]

5. Triggered by a Prius!

[NightWatcher]

6. He didn't expect the Prius driver to have a gun. They think theirs is the only side that has guns

They're going to get a real surprise one of these days just like that guy f'd around and found out.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. I think that was the guy's calculus as well.

He assumed a Prius driver would be unarmed. He calc'd wrong.

[Joinfortmill]

40. Yup.

[2naSalit]

10. Yikes.

What an asshole, guess he got what he deserved if that's how it happened. Geeze.

[dchill]

16. Just wow.

[BeckyDem]

19. Holy cow.

[Red Pest]

39. He was a quiet fellow & the previous 2014 incident -

Dennis MacKee, speaking on behalf of the State Board of Administration, said he could not confirm that Kuczwanski was the person killed in the road rage incident, but confirmed that he died Thursday, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

“He was a quiet fellow,” MacKee said. “Everything in his world was about his family.”

Previously, Kuczwanski pleaded no contest to assault and disorderly conduct charges in 2014 related to a separate road rage incident at the same intersection, as first reported by Tallahassee Reports.

According to the probable cause affidavit for that case, deputies were dispatched after a driver called to report that another driver had “pointed a small, black in color handgun with a mounted laser at him while stopped next to him at the intersection of Thomasville Road and Bannerman Road.”

Law enforcement found Kuczwanski still inside the vehicle matching the description from the caller when they responded to that 2014 incident. A deputy verified that Kuczwanski had a weapon matching the caller’s description and arrested him on the scene. He was later sentenced to probation, which was completed in 2018.

You've got to watch out for the quiet fellows where everything is about their families.

[tblue37]

42. He let his guns do his talking for him.

[Demovictory9]

51. omg.

[Emile]

3. I'm sure they were both standing their ground. So everything's ok

In Florida.

[dchill]

4. Ground stood.

[dweller]

9. His Final Stand

should fit on a tombstone
🪦


✌🏻

[Bluepinky]

52. That's appropriate!

That saying should be on a lot of tombstones in Florida, with all the gun nuts down there.

[Escurumbele]

32. Well, if John Kuczwanski shot 1st then the other guy did stand his ground

Not that I agree with that crazy law, but it seems to have been in self defense.

[cloudbase]

7. His wife is apparently quite a nutter as well.

Completely divorced from reality.

[rsdsharp]

30. Yeah. "His wife said he was a victim. . ."

Even though she wasn’t there when it happened.

[rurallib]

34. she should thank her lucky stars she never got shot during one of his tantrums.

[Ray Bruns]

36. I find it ironic that the people who push the most for concealed carry

are the ones who who shouldn't be allowed to own guns in the first place.

[brush]

8. Oh, this white-on-white crime is getting to be too much.

But seriously, ya just know the guy who was released, after killing a white guy during a shoot-out resulting from an accident in traffic, (what could be more routine in Floriduh :sarcasm , just had to be another white guy.

Again, the guy was released. Florida is crazy.

[Coventina]

11. He apparently died doing what he loved!

[calimary]

27. Thinning the herd.

[Torchlight]

12. Granddad told me, 'if you live like an idiot, you'll probably die as one'

Temper tantrums do not belong behind the driver's wheel.

[MicaelS]

14. Darwin Award for the week. n/t

[Girard442]

15. Kuczwanski was obviously a ticking time bomb.

Don't want to see anybody killed in a road-rage shootout, but I don't miss him now that he's gone.

[mitch96]

31. Yup, that gene pool of stupid is gone forever...nt

[csziggy]

17. That's only a few miles from me.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the Sheriff's deputies which came out later last night, about 7 PM? There had been reports of someone roaming around in our woods with a flashlight.

It turns out that now that we've had cold enough weather for the underbrush to clear out, whoever put in the report could see lights from some of the houses through the trees they are not used to seeing. Duh.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. An armed society is a polite society. Pew pew pew

[Ohio Joe]

41. I have a brother who is a gun nut...

I'd not spoken to him in many years until I moved to Colorado (a good number of my family has relocated here, I love it). I'd heard him repeatedly use this phrase during the first few times we got together, and I found it really weird for a gun nut to use, so I finally asked him if he knew the context, origin and actual meaning... He did not... Of course. So... I explained it to him but he did not believe me and just got angry... Of course. We never discussed it again, but I expect he did look it up as he has never again used it

[XanaDUer2]

20. It's Florida. Assume everyone is armed

Asshat

[TheRealNorth]

21. Another one bites the dust

[maxsolomon]

22. Guns Fever

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[BlueIdaho]

23. Live by the gun, die by the gun... nt

[Hortensis]

24. Proper gun control would presumably have saved his life. That first

incident should have disarmed him, at least legally.

Doncha love the big lies immediately generated, like mental muscle memory of long practice.

[LAS14]

25. I've stopped feeling guilty over Schadenfreude. nt

[calimary]

28. Yeah, no kidding! That pretty much sums me up, too, my friend.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

43. Same here.

I read sorryantvaxxer.com yesterday while enjoying a large, fresh-baked slice of schaedenfreude. And the accompanying two scoops of irony went with it nicely.

[Martin Eden]

26. All kinds of ways ...

... for RW nutjobs to win Darwin Awards.

[KG]

29. funny, when I lived in the area in the 80s , that was a lonely little intersection.

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. There are twice as many people in the state as there were in the '80's (n/t)

[TeamProg]

35. Some good news! Live by the gun -die by the gun. n/t

[rownesheck]

37. So...

which one was the "good guy with a gun"?

[UrbanProspector]

45. Yee Haw...Murica

can I get a "Lets go Darwin"?

[Snackshack]

46. That does it.

I’m never going to Florida.

[634-5789]

48. Just another gun nut. No surprise here!

[Javaman]

49. live by the gun, die by the gun. nt