Back in Dallas, a group of bikers closed down the 75 Freeway, a MAJOR freeway leading in/out of Dallas. I lived in the center of down town and took the 75 often to go to school, shopping, whatever.
Fast forward a year, and there were threats that the same bikers would close the 75 again. One day during the time that we had the news forecasts, there was an officer outside our apartment, this is how the conversation went.
DE.50-"So, if I'm on the 75 and they close the freeway ahead of me, what do I do?"
Officer-"You got a gun?"
DE-"Yeah, why?"
O-"Good, carry it, they stop in front of you car shoot them, you got a big car?"
DE-"Um... Yeah..." (I had a Maxima at the time)
O-"Gooooood, get your gun, SHOOT the bikers and run them over, then when you're back home, call the police, tell us you killed a few of the bikers, and give me a call, I got you covered" (and he gave me his business card)
DE-I laughed and said "Really?"
O-"Yeah, ****'em, shoot'em. Have a good night" (and he left)


It was weird/awesome at the same time

That's the difference between TX and NY. God bless TX. Situations like that justify carrying an extra mag.

The SUV driver should thank his lucky stars he got into it with squids, not real bikers. He'd have been stabbed and beat with a chain until it was a closed casket funeral.

LOL! I carried 3 mags during that time :tup:


And yeah, if it was real bikers, they would have had to scrape the Range Rover driver off the road. And I'd like to assume that real bikers don't mess with random people, JUST to do it, and/or they might take more to get really pissed enough to do what these guys did.

On Reddit I read that apparently RR was on the phone with 911 and they couldn't get to him in time since they were traveling at those speeds on the highway. 911 then told him to drive off the highway to the nearest police station. RR ran into traffic along with having a slashed tire or two and that's where his window got bashed in. Some guy google mapped their location and apparently he was .2 miles away from the police station a couple streets away.

Honestly, I think you could do more damage with the RR than an extra mag.

Also, "real" bikers would be an endangered species if they did. The media is having a field day with these wannabe's. If it were an actual club, I guarantee the public fear will prevail and they'll treat them like terrorist. I have a feeling that this is just the beginning. Any large rides like this in the future will have cops swarming on them. If they escalate, so will public outrage. This thing is already going viral.

It's not an either/or situation.

Good. Make examples of these idiots.

this is why I concealed carry. If I had my wife and child in the car and was attacked by angry bikers intent on doing me or my family harm? I would have shot every single one of them I could before running out of ammo. Whats this country comming too? is this what we do? beating people in front of their family because he ran over your dumb *** bike riding buddy because he caused an accident? what is this some 3rd world country without rules? people like that MAKE people like me carry a weapon. If they didnt exist, neither would my gun.

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Looks like there were 2 arrests. One of the guys turned themselves in.

Biker arrested for accident that caused attack on SUV driver in upper Manhattan and another rider surrenders to cops - NY Daily News

Yep exactly, some of these guys are just small timers or random nobody that got extra brave because they felt empowered by the large group. Real organized clubs don't go around stopping traffic and bring attention to themselves for no reason.

New motivation for getting a concealed handgun license

Lol, btw, you don't need a CCW to carry in your car

oh you most certainly do if you end up using it. using its never right, but if you DONT have a license, carry in your car, then shoot someone even in life threatening self defense you will go to jail for a butt poundingly long time. As jacked up as it is, having that license for some reason makes it all ok. :shakes head:

Maybe in your state. It's completely legal in TX to carry in your car without a CHL.

Exactly. TX is more redneck than VA

If anybody is interested: State Gun Laws @ NRA-ILA