"Las Vegas pushes gun promotions; Ranges pitch outlandish ads" by Hannah Dreier | Associated Press, February 15, 2013
LAS VEGAS — Never known for its understatement or good taste, Sin City is bucking the national trend of avoiding flippant gun promotions after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting. Instead, it is embracing tourists’ newfound interest in big guns the only way it knows how: by going all in.
The newest crop of outlandish Valentine’s Day offers is no exception....
This year, shooting ranges extended their tongue-in-cheek promotions to Valentine’s Day, always a moneymaker in this matrimony-and-sex-obsessed town.
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I doubt they love the agenda-pushing AP hatchet job.
"Las Vegas shaken by high-profile violence" by Hannah Dreier | Associated Press, February 24, 2013
I doubt they love the agenda-pushing AP hatchet job.
"Las Vegas shaken by high-profile violence" by Hannah Dreier | Associated Press, February 24, 2013
LAS VEGAS — Variously known as an adult playground and Disneyland for grown-ups, Las Vegas brands itself as a spot where tourists can enjoy a sense of edginess with no real danger.
Yeah, and there advertisements are all over my television.
But a series of high-profile episodes of random violence amid throngs of tourists threatens Sin City’s reputation as a padded room of a town where people can cut loose with no fear of consequences.
Never been there, and don't want to.
A car-to-car shooting and fiery crash that killed two bystanders and an aspiring rapper Thursday followed a bizarre elevator stabbing and a movie theater parking lot shooting.
Though crime has been falling on the glitzy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that houses most of the city’s major casinos, tourism officials fear vacationers and convention planners could begin to steer clear of town because of a perception of mayhem.
‘‘We are concerned because it can create misperceptions about the safety of the city, the safety of the Strip,’’ said Gary Thompson, spokesman for Caesars Entertainment.
So can agenda-pushing newspapers.
Casinos are particularly worried about convention business, which helps fill rooms and gambling tables between weekends. Corporate planners can swing the market with a few decisions, said Gordon Absher, spokesman for MGM Resorts International.
‘‘And that decision will bring thousands of people,’’ he said. MGM operates several major casino-hotels, including CityCenter, where Thursday’s convulsion of violence originated.
Violent crime, which includes murder, rape, robbery, and assault, in the city’s main tourist hub fell 13 percent in 2012, from 256 to 223 incidents, and is down 11 percent for the first part of 2013, with 50 incidents reported. The number of rapes has fallen by more than a third.
I'm really confused these days.
But there have been two homicides off the Strip this year, in addition to the three deaths Thursday, compared with none in the area during the first month and a half of 2012.
The spate of violence started just before the new year, when a man shot and killed his former girlfriend, an Excalibur hotel-casino concierge clerk, before killing himself.
A nighttime shooting outside a Strip movie theater left two people critically wounded earlier this month. Last week, two men allegedly assaulted a visitor in the elevator at the Mandalay Bay property, tackling him and stabbing him in such a frenzy that they also stabbed each other.
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Taking your chances if you are going to believe an AmeriKan newspaper.
Related:
2 victims in Vegas shooting are ID’d
Suspect identified in Las Vegas deaths
"The dramatic scene — which more than one tourist compared to something out of a movie — set off a frantic search for the occupants of the Range Rover and marked the latest violent episode on the Strip this year."
Maybe it was. You just don't know anymore when you read an AmeriKan newspaper.
Vegas fugitive arrested at Los Angeles apartment
Las Vegas shooting suspect in court
Also see: The Vile Statistics on Violent Crime
It's the agenda-pushing lying I find the worst.
