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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Guns Gun Nuts on the Strip in Vegas: Outlaw Cars, Shall We?

Posted by Chicago Fan on Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:06 AM

Guns don't kill people, people in SUVs kill people.

LAS VEGAS — Three people were killed and at least three others were hurt in a rolling shootout that ultimately ended in a fiery crash at a busy intersection on the Las Vegas Strip, according to media reports.

A police spokesman told CNN that a person in a black Ranger Rover Sport opened fire on a Maserati around 4:20 a.m., killing the driver and wounding a passenger. The Maserati then crashed into a taxi and four other cars.

The taxi caught fire and the cab driver and a passenger were killed, according to a local television report. The SUV left the scene, according to the Associated Press.

See, if you didn't have SUVs and Maseratis, this gunplay would've taken place on foot, and good guys with guns would've handled the whole situation, right? And the collateral damage of the cabbie and his passenger? They would've lived if they'd just been pedestrians, too. Clearly, the internal combustion engine is the problem here. But I suppose that if you outlaw cars, only outlaws will drive cars.

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This is straight Hollywood. Re-cap of the Smallz - Tupac beef.

Posted by Lew Siffer on February 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM

It's time for another round of EVERYONE'S favorite game show
STRANGER TROLLING BINGO!

Today's winning picks are:

Gun nuts!
Well regulated!
Suicide!
Assault weapons!
Apples and oranges!
Anyone mistaking "assault weapon" for "fully automatic"!
Anyone suggesting only muskets be allowed!
Anyone presenting a tautology!
Anyone cherry picking different nations to compare!
The NRA!

Beat a straw man for big bonus points!

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on February 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM

@2: Can we make it a drinking game? These bitching sessions would be a lot more fun drunk.

Posted by NateMan on February 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM

@2: You forgot: Hypocrytically originalist, cherry-picked and long-outdated redefinitions of words in the bill of rights!

Posted by emma's bee on February 21, 2013 at 9:39 AM

@3 At this stage, the result would be lethal alcohol poisoning.

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on February 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM

Yes, my target shooting habit is completely responsible for drug gang violence. I admit it!

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on February 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM

I would say this is getting old, but even saying "this is getting old" is getting old.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 21, 2013 at 10:08 AM

I actually don't object to taking a shot at a Range Rover or a Maserati. Although I don't get why anybody riding in one would think people riding in the other were guilty of worse taste.

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on February 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM

@4
"You forgot: Hypocrytically originalist, ..."

That's covered under "well regulated".

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on February 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM

the point is: 3 more dead from guns. throw those fresh corpses on the woodpile of freedom, they need to dry before they'll burn.

and don't worry, they'll be more carnage tomorrow.

Posted by Max Solomon on February 21, 2013 at 11:28 AM

#2 For The Win!

This shit got old around last December, but I suppose I can't bitch too much since 90% of my comments on the SLOG are on crazy gun-control threads. I feel somewhat personally responsible for feeding the anti-gun trolls.

Holy hell, I want some summer and sunshine and the bliss of having better shit to do than read the SLOG...

Posted by CPN on February 21, 2013 at 11:33 AM

Any post that starts with gun, gun-nut, etc, just paste the text from #2. It is the final boss.

Posted by Lew Siffer on February 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM

The poor taxi rider (and driver), without his own vehicle and essentially using Vegas predominant form of "public transit" seems like the biggest loser. No escape Maserati or big limo to protect her. No gangsta loot. Just a plastic bucket full of coins for the slots and what does she get. Dead. Just dead.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM

@8: All the gun control debates have driven you mad, sir. There are absolutely gorgeous Maseratis in this world, and even the grumpiest experts agree that they are amazing.

Posted by Knat on February 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM

@14

Pretty cars are pretty. But they're all driven by hairy 62 year olds with popped collars and gold chains trying to pick up 17 year old girls. Or hairy Russian gangsters with popped collars and gold chains trying to pick up 17 year old girls.

Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a metal box you leave in a shitty parking lot is just gross.

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on February 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM

@14, the older ones are far prettier. I think the Maserati Mexico may be the prettiest.

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z8791…

And I've never seen one driven by someone over 50 or even slightly Russian.

Posted by i don't know on February 21, 2013 at 3:54 PM

@15: Ah. Now I follow you.

@16: That one's not bad. The front end reminds me think of an old Jaguar(?) that someone pointed out to me once, explaining that the car was ridiculously rare and valuable, and had no business being in the Queen Anne parking garage where we encountered it.

Posted by Knat on February 21, 2013 at 5:46 PM