This is what can happen when you live in a no firearm city, you have NO protection, a .45 placed on the dash may have cooled the situation off. Although CAR versus motorcycle can be a very effective weapon. I understand the riders were in the wrong, being rowdy all day, & are "being sought by police".
Agreed, looking closer at it the SUV driver did not do all that much wrong. Being in a crowd makes things rough. I had a recent episode while not to similar it made me think.
A few weeks ago we were eating in at a street cafe' with our dog. He was under the table on a shot leash waiting for dropped food. We were set 10 feet or so back off the sidewalk. All the sudden our dog (a 15lb jack russel) starts growling and barking, I look up and there is a 75lb dirty mutt trotting toward us without a leash. I snatch our dog up quick as the apparent stray comes up and stops about 6" short of us and my dog was going nut. After about 10 seconds the owner comes around the corner and looks at us. I saw her and said "hey there is a leash law, come get your dog." Instead of getting her dog she says to us "If your dog is such an asshole you should not take him out in public." Really??? By this time her mutt had lost interest and was wandering around eating food off the ground under other customers tables. The restaurant manager came out and asked her to leave.
That is the closest I have ever come to drawing my weapon. If her dog had moved those last few inches and snapped at mine that would have done it. Lucky for us the dog had more sense than its owner. A lot of things go through your mind when things like that happen. Crowded restaurant, busy street, your and your families safety. Its all a hard call to make. If it had been my child and not my dog the mutt was approaching what would I have done?
I don't think I would have put my pistol on the dash if I was in the SUV, maybe I would have hopped out and drawn down, horrible situation..