Observations about the Texas motorcycle gang violence from very far away...

Two quick observations from the shootout between two rival biker gangs in Texas.

First The police were already there, ready for violence.  And yet, 9 people were shot and killed and more than 100 injured.  Again, "the good guy with a gun trumps a bad guy with a gun" myth is just that...a complete and total myth.  If bad guys have guns, they use them.  Good guys don't stand a chance.  Keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys is the only sane course of action.

Second, can you imagine what the police response - both pre and post violence - would have been like if the combatants had been the Bloods and the Crypts?  I'm just saying.  Yes, there is a huge police presence outside the restaurant where it happened, but after looking at national TV coverage, I don't see a single tank, or M-WRAP or other assault vehicle.  And oh by the way, the police are getting death threats as I write - yet no grenade launchers and urban assault vehicles.

Again, just sayin'.