In the last dozen years or so, it seems like a bajillion middle-aged middle-class American men (guys with more money than either common sense or hair) grew goatees and started riding Harleys - evidence of how fucked up and phony we can get in our obsessive pursuit of a personal identity driven by the whims of fashion and imposed from the outside by marketeers bean-counters and peer pressure instead of reflection study and insight.
Or maybe I'm just feeling the effects of having binge-watched way too much Mad Men over the weekend, trying to catch myself up on a part of Cultura Americanus Vulgaris.
Anyway, along comes this - via KWTX:
Assuming there're good-guy bikers with guns and bad-guy bikers with guns, which was which when the shooting started?
When the cops showed up, were they able to spot the good-guy bikers? Or did they just assume everybody with a gun (but without a cop suit) was a bad guy who needed to be seen as a threat?
And when can we expect all you CosPlay Bikers to stand up and condemn the extremists in your midst?
Or maybe I'm just feeling the effects of having binge-watched way too much Mad Men over the weekend, trying to catch myself up on a part of Cultura Americanus Vulgaris.
Anyway, along comes this - via KWTX:
WACO: (May 17, 2015) Rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and 18 were injured.
Early Monday, law enforcement had turned their attention to the risk of additional bike gang members looking to retaliate, and initiate further violence in the Waco area.
Sunday afternoon, Waco Police, assisted by Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in the Central Texas Market Place after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.
Police initially said three gangs were involved, but later said factions from at least five gangs took part in the melee.
Police and troopers were in the parking lot trying to secure the area and protect citizens when a fight broke out inside the restaurant and spilled into the parking lot.
Swanton said the fight quickly escalated from fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire.
Gang members were shooting at each other and officers at the scene fired their weapons, as well, Swanton said.So - a few questions:
Assuming there're good-guy bikers with guns and bad-guy bikers with guns, which was which when the shooting started?
When the cops showed up, were they able to spot the good-guy bikers? Or did they just assume everybody with a gun (but without a cop suit) was a bad guy who needed to be seen as a threat?
And when can we expect all you CosPlay Bikers to stand up and condemn the extremists in your midst?
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