[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Election Day Riots? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/13/2008 6:43:10 AM EDT
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How likely are they to happen in the Las Vegas area? What would be the best course of action if they do happen? |
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Being out here in Pahrump.. I'm not too worried about it..however Vegas DID see some considerable rioting during the Rodney king riots. query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DA153AF93AA25756C0A964958260 And www.joebobbriggs.com/vegasguy/vg20020416.html Quick Excerpt.. When the Rodney King riots broke out in 1992, they lasted three days in Los Angeles--but West Las Vegas had its own Rodney King riots, and they didn't end for three weeks. The reaction of the casino owners was typical: as long as the riots didn't reach the tourist areas, they were content to let it flame out naturally. (The vast destruction of West Las Vegas businesses was thought of as the much lesser of two evils.) I never even knew about the LA Riots spreading to Vegas till I moved to Nevada. Who knows.. Me, I plan on keeping an eye on the news and staying safe that day after voting. |
I am going to make a guess and say that WEST Las Vegas in 1992 was somewhere around MLK and Carey area, and much past there was open desert! ETA: Like Darkstar I cannot always be armed. The government does not trust us to carry on base.  Absolute B.S. if you ask me!!
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Yes, it is. I work with explosives every day at work, but I can not be trusted to have a firearm at work. |
2W0 for 11 yrs so, I hear ya! |
Either that or the people that actually work for a living and have something to lose when it comes to the impending doom of socialism, will be rioting. 
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2W0's its a good thing they dont let you carry to the base. I have seen what you can do a munition with hand tools would hate to see what you could do with firearms.  j/k, you fellas work at Nellis?
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The West Side for us natives was pretty much bordered by Bonanza up through Lorenzi Park and Rancho to about Lake Mead (through the old Gerson Park area where the GPK resided). Then from MLK to about Cheyenne down to around Commerce/Las Vegas BLVD area and back up LVBD to Bonanza. thanks, Ron |
The West Side for us natives was pretty much bordered by Bonanza up through Lorenzi Park and Rancho to about Lake Mead (through the old Gerson Park area where the GPK resided). Then from MLK to about Cheyenne down to around Commerce/Las Vegas BLVD area and back up LVBD to Bonanza. thanks, Ron |
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Actually, the city of LV is trying to remove all of the section 8 apts.... basically the projects. Now, people support this, but they fail to look at the ease of containing the problem. Let's look at it from a different perspective. You have 10,000 terrorists all living in a small town of Iraq. You know where they live, they hurt each other, and they leave their home area to attack the good people. The real problem area is the one near the terrorist town. The problem is essentially self contained. Now, the govt. wants to destroy the town, pay the terrorists to move to other parts, and spread them all over the country. Instead of having a central launching point for their terroristic activities, they will be polluting all parts of the country. Another perspective is this: You have lice. They won't die easily. You could have them all living together in a colony on your big toe. You can monitor them and deal with them appropriately when the colony gets restless and tries to migrate to the other areas. Would you rather have the colony on your big toe or growing rapidly in lil' specs all over your body? Some weird analogies.... let's not even get into the Section 8 problems. There is no unified system for good people (neighbors) or LE to monitor or have people evicted from problem rentals. If you come into the NLV section, you can apply, get the money and later move to anywhere you want. So, you could be in Henderson and in section 8 that is paid through the NLV section. It is difficult to find out who is responsible for the section 8 rental funding. Sorry, had to sprout a GD tangent 
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+1 dammit. Section 8 is EVERYWHERE, from what i've been told a mass influx into Summerlin! I drive past it everyday in NLV  I like seeing young kids in pajama bottoms and wife beater shirts or no shirts walking back from Smiths with a soda and chips in grocery bags...or shopping carts left on my street.WAY TO GO, CITY COUNCIL! WAY TO KEEP OUR PROPERTY VALUES UP!
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Chiz... Who was it making those statements about the riff-raff in your area? thanks, Ron |
Ha, if you think they were screwed up bad with hand tools. You must have never seen one that we used air tools on I work at Creech  I am beginning to hate that drive.
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What would be the best course of action if they do happen? Personally, I'll be making a martini with pickled onion and hoping there's some good TV coverage. Of course, I live in a remote end of Washoe up in the pines and snowline near a secluded forest glen. My advice to you is to perhaps open your windows and play the old disco hit 'Boogie Fever' as loudly as your stereo system can handle it and hope that the rioters coming your way drop their weapons and start dancing. |
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they riot and burn their city when their basketball team wins, imagine what they'll do if their president is elected. And look at what happened when the white man got away with it after the Rodney King trials, imagine if the white man gets away with it on this scale.
Don't forget to top off your gas tanks. |
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they riot and burn their city when their basketball team wins, imagine what they'll do if their president is elected. And look at what happened when the white man got away with it after the Rodney King trials, imagine if the white man gets away with it on this scale. Don't forget to top off your gas tanks. Don’t forget to pray - Psalm 144:1 or “Hail Mary, full of grace… Lord, let me see the front sight and place the rounds in their face." |
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I was reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, same guy who wrote No Country for Old Men. Anyway, The Road is about the post-apocalyptic travels of a father and his young son across what I belive is the southwest. There is one flashback to the "event", and the father sees the flash, hears and feels the muffled blast, and turns on the bathroom tub.
wife: are you going to take a bath? father: no |
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I was reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, same guy who wrote No Country for Old Men. Anyway, The Road is about the post-apocalyptic travels of a father and his young son across what I belive is the southwest. There is one flashback to the "event", and the father sees the flash, hears and feels the muffled blast, and turns on the bathroom tub. wife: are you going to take a bath? father: no So maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't get it. |
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Relaying a question by a coworker. Is it illegal in NV to have a long arm in the passenger compartment of a vehicle? No, but you know the drill when it comes to places like NLV. 
Just can't have an "unexpended cartridge or shell in the chamber." Loaded mag is fine just don't chamber a round while driving around. |
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Relaying a question by a coworker. Is it illegal in NV to have a long arm in the passenger compartment of a vehicle? I do believe it is legal although a round can not be chambered. A loaded and inserted magazine is acceptable as long as it's not chambered. someone please correct me if I'm wrong. edt: Animus beat me to it. I should have refreshed the page before replying. |