JEB won’t be out-gothed.
As an (ahem) not-young person I think at least in my own mid-Atlantic area there’s been a noticeable decrease in outlaw biker gangs from a generation or so ago as far as I can tell. They used to be a regular sight at big partyish gatherings, music festivals and so forth, and they’d always be in certain of the less reputable bars, and you’d see them just out riding. Much, much less so these days. No idea why, or even if it’s a real trend, but that’s my experience at least.
I i i i… don’t want a pickle … da … da …
I just wanna ride on my _________ da … daa … dee —
( Arlo Guthrie )
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Too bad cops don’t wear bodycams when they’re wearing their biker colors. At least they don’t in Chicago.
I live next door to a REALLY wealthy neighborhood and on the weekends in the summer I always see groups of “Hell’s CEOs” riding their tricked-out Harley’s in groups (wearing clean, pressed denim) with their “Bitches” on the back (in $2K leather pants) on their way to the Yacht Club for lunch.
It’s hilarious how all these “paragons of capitalism” feel a need to be “rebels” on the weekends.
“Plastic Bikers” we call them (among other things.)
NRA: If nobody had any guns, everybody would get shot.
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Did the Waco biker shootout come up in the debates? Did Megyn Kelly address a candidate in a debate with: “They saw bikers, and they did not think that was enough to call the cops. Do you?”? Anyone mention that it would be a good idea to screen immigrants for biker tattoos?
This will fade as soon as the interesting visuals are gone and there is new news to report.
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Oh, so you meant FOX News during the debates, not “cable news”.
And currently it’s a huge story on FOX.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/30/two-shot-one-stabbed-at-denver-coliseum-police-say.html?intcmp=hpbt4
Another huge factor is that biker gangs usually are killing each other. Terror attacks from whatever group deliberately target innocent civilians, and they look for mass casualties. That is a night and day scenario. For you to ignore that is to be in denial of reality. If bikers were suddenly going around shooting up innocent people for no reason, it would indeed be a much bigger story, and would be around for a much longer time. But frankly, if gang members (be it bikers or whoever) are just killing each other, that is just not as big a concern from a national security standpoint as people who want to do mass casualties.
I’d be willing to bet that more people could name the OK City bomber than the people who did the initial WTC bombing. Why? Because that killed a LOT more people. Tim McVeigh is still a household name in a very negative way, as it should be for such a POS. Yet people forget the Muslims involved, because a LOT less people were killed. Has nothing to do with religion.
You would think that biker gangs would have bike duels or biker jousting, something like that, that involved, you know, bikes.
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Just another day in the US,
More white on white thug violence that’s so endemic in white culture.
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It sounds, and looks like they were all “good guys with guns.” I guess that when you gotta shoot, ya gotta shoot. Too bad there weren’t any " bad guys."
Oh well the shooting was done. The 2nd Ammendment has once again been defended.
Wayne LaPierre: "Stabbing ? Why stab, when you can shoot ?
No way. Biker gangs in the same place at the same time and violence happens?
The second amendment may have made some sense when the founding father put it in the Constitution. Today it makes no sense at all and puts all of us at risk for even going to a shopping center. The NRA should be seen as a criminal organization.
I started with a Yamaha TX500, then graduated to a Kawasaki KZ650 - a four-cylinder, four-stroke rocket. And, like you, I realized I was probably going to kill myself with it, and sadly sold it a couple of years later.
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It was almost an anachronism when it was enacted. It was designed to ensure that the Government could raise a militia, if needed (among other things, for putting down rebellions like the recent one in Oregon, ironically enough), since there was no standing army. By the early 19th Century, it was no longer relevant at all.
Today, the 2nd Amendment shouldn’t be any more meaningful than the 3rd. If it weren’t for some willful misreading by SCOTUS…
I took that beautiful bike that I knew was gonna shorten my life and traded for a Ford F-150 1972 model + cash. The Ford was only 3 yrs old at the time. I felt more secure on 4 wheels and surrounded by steel. Not long after that I was living out of that truck… so it was a good choice.
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Rode a 1976 KZ650. Had it tricked with a larger counter-sprocket for a better highway top-end.
Used to damn-near-fly GA Hwy 400 just north of ATL (where Smokey & The Bandit was filmed)-- at the time a 50mi controlled-access highway that started nowhere and went nowhere.
Until my '97 Mustang GT-- that bike was the fastest I’d driven/ridden on land.
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