Lawbreaking Bikers Promote Anti-Second Amendment Message

By Dean Weingarten

Lawbreaking Bikers Promote Anti-Second Amendment Message
Lawbreaking Bikers Promote Anti-Second Amendment Message
Dean Weingarten
Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- People all along the East Coast are increasingly being subjected to a low level of lawless intimidation with massive traffic intimidation by a subculture of outlaw bikers.

This is a separate subculture that revels in their ability to escape police and to break traffic laws with impunity.  You will not find many, if any, Harleys, street bikes or touring bikes among them.  I did not see any riders with recognizable “colors” that are emblematic of motorcycle clubs that have significant reach.

Most are unlicensed dirt bikes and ATVs.  The riders have learned to break the law with impunity, especially in large, semi-organized groups.

The bikes give them the ability to go places where police cars or even conventional police motorcycles cannot go, and police organizations have been under pressure not to chase the law breakers for fear of causing accidents.

In many areas the police have given up on enforcing the law, and have broadcast their intentions to the public. This serves to empower and reinforce the attitudes of the outlaws.

The most famous recent example of the lawlessness associated with these events was the video from New York in 2013.

At least five off duty police officers were present when the bikers beat a motorist who dared to defy their lawlessness, and attempted to flee.  Hundreds of lawless motorcyclists pursued the family and the motorist, blocking off avenues of escape, eventually cornering the vehicle, dragging the driver from the SUV, and beating the man senseless in front of his wife and baby.  One off-duty police officer was convicted of felonies in the incident.

In Miami, another example was organized with a new twist . From cbslocal.com:

“Man… guns down, bikes up!” a biker said.

The ride, which seems to have a social media following of #BikesUpGunsDown and #MLKRideOut, is reportedly meant to bring peace to areas with gun violence.

Yet it’s hard to understand how endangering commuters and breaking about every traffic law known to man delivers a message of nonviolence.

Many in these lawless biker events have criminal histories.  The events are organized near large urban centers, but attract individuals from significant distances.  Linking Martin Luther King day  and an anti-Second Amendment theme is a new combination.

My experience with the motorcycle culture is that members tend to be pro-Second Amendment.  This sub-culture differs by being more urban, more lawless, and depends on the anonymity that is produced by helmets and unlicensed dirt bikes.

When the local police publicly say that they will not chase the bikers, except when identifiable felonies are committed, chaos on the streets follows.

Early reports showed only two significant accidents involving the bikers.  One biker will be released from the hospital with minor injuries after flying 50 feet from the collision.  The biker in the other incident is in critical condition. Bikers do not fare well in collisions with cars.

The bikers in the Miami event inconvenienced thousands of commuters, and endangered hundreds.  It seems unlikely that they convinced many to support more infringements on the Second Amendment.

c2014 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included. Link to Gun Watch

About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Mainestategop

These are not bikers these are wet back hoodlums. Note that distinction. These are mostly wet backs empowered by Amnesty and political correctness. If the police wont punish them then American’s need to lock and load and kill the thugs and anyone who supports them. Each time a wet back on a motorcycle attacks a black man or a white man, a group of vigilantes need to go to the biker bars and hose them out with ak-47s. And then any cop that wont arrest them should be shot No more special laws for minorities No more lazy pig police… Read more »

Janek

Looks like the ‘Monochrome Coalition’ now has it’s own grass-‘roots’ motor bike brigade with a few ‘tokens’ who tag along.

TEX

Like the above poster said these aholes ain’t bikers ! These parasites have no life and probably stole the dirt bike they ride ! Citizens will take care of these d bags over time !

Roy French

These assholes are not “bikers”. they are thugs, You cannot tell me that law enforcement could not deal with them if need arises! This PC crap is making wussies of our nation,take the politics out of law enforcement and our military, we are better than this!