Good Guy with a Gun #372: Glen Burnie, MD

Road rage: Still not worth it. Escalating with a hammer: Just don’t. | Original incident: November 7, 2024

Nov 07, 2026

These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. (Do you have yours yet?) Today’s post is somewhat updated from the calendar version.

Motorcycles are vulnerable targets.

A little after 8 on a Thursday night, a 22-year-old was riding his motorcycle through Glen Burnie when he noticed the vehicle behind him. It was right on his tail, and the driver was all over the road.

Then the driver pulled up alongside and started yelling at him. The vehicle nearly hit the motorcycle, and he pulled off the road. The other vehicle stopped too.

The rider got off the motorcycle, and the driver got out of his vehicle — with a hammer — and charged him.

The rider, who has a Maryland concealed carry permit, drew a handgun and shot him.

The driver died there in the road. The rider stayed and told police he’d been assaulted. Later, the driver was identified as 51-year-old Scott David Guhse of Glen Burnie.

Hyung Chang, who owns Against Our Odds Vape Shop nearby, heard it. “I was sitting at my computer, it was a little after eight and I heard a pop. I was pretty sure it was a gunshot,” he said. His security camera was about 20 feet shy of the spot and caught nothing.

Along that road, Chang said, he sees people “popping off screaming at each other” at least once a month. “People just need to learn to let things go,” he said.

Not everyone in Glen Burnie was on the rider’s side. “He doesn’t have to take his life because he’s making a stupid, emotional decision,” said Sonya Griffin, a resident.

Megan Shacklock saw it differently: “If someone’s coming at me with a hammer, I mean, I don’t know what I would do, but I definitely would consider that self-defense because, I mean, he’s coming at you.”

Well, yeah. The rider had already nearly been hit and had to pull off the road once that night, and his bike was on the ground. Turning to run would have meant giving a man with a hammer his back.

Limansky said police were weighing the same question: