Mudcat censorship aside, I take your point about media censorship, GUEST. What I meant was that I'm glad to see that the link between David M and David A wasn't kept completely out of the press as I had mistakenly thought it was.

I don't agree that the story should have made major national headlines simply because it happened in the wake of the DC sniper shootings. This was clearly a road-rage incident. Judging from the NBC article, the guy in the Mercedes was not the sort of innocent bystander who was shot by the sniper; rather, he appears to have been the instigator of the road-rage game (that's still no excuse to shoot at him, though!).

Frankly, I'm not sure that the story merits national attention. Okay, the guy's son turns out to be an asshole. Does that mean that the guy himself has to be dragged through the mud for it all over the country? As has been pointed out here, David M is legally an adult, so he is responsible for his own actions and he will pay the consequences. He could have had a long and illustrious career following in his father's footsteps, but he blew it all for one moment's satisfaction of feeling a gun go off in his hand, just because he got pissed off at somebody for playing highway leapfrog.

All the same, I'm sure there are plenty of people who will keep a close eye on David M's future actions and career moves to ensure that his daddy doesn't make this crime go away.