At least eight people were killed Tuesday when a group of men tossed Molotov cocktails into a bar in the tourist friendly Mexican town of Cancun, officials said.There is no word from the powerful NCA (National Chivas Association) on whether the flammable liquid used in the homemade bombs came from a bottle or bottles of alcohol purchased using the liquor show loophole in Texas or Arizona. Rumors that Mexican drug cartels have been secretly crossing the border into the US to purchase alcohol for their bombs have persisted in the law enforcement community for weeks. There is no word on when boozehounds will relinquish their last bottles of Bacardi 151 for the common good.
Authorities said six to eight men entered the Castillo de Mar bar and threw homemade bombs, killing six women and two men who were inside.
Investigators said they do not know of a motive for the attack, but the bar was reportedly the victim of two extortion attempts, allegedly by the Zetas drug cartel.
I probably shouldn't joke about a bombing where eight innocent people lost their lives, but I'm struck by just how silent the anti-freedom folks are when a mass murder is committed with a weapon that is not a firearm. We were treated to relentless stories of drug wars that were breathlessly (and brainlessly) "traced" to American soil, with the tacit admission that the US's lax gun laws were resulting in Mexican gangs getting their hands on machine guns and hand grenades. Yes, those guns were traced to the US - because we sold the damn things to the Mexican army, who suffer from mass defections and soldiers selling the guns they are issued.
It's foolish to think that we need to change our gun laws to accommodate the lawless in another country. It's suicide to think that by merely making guns harder to get that folks will miraculously stop killing each other - as these sorts of stories prove. Eight people died using materials that one can acquire in countless thousands of gas stations across the country, for literally a handful of dollars. The carnage wrought in the link above may have come from one gallon of gas split between a dozen or so empty beer bottles - there's quite simply no way to stop an attack like that with any law or prohibition.
Or are we going to hear Teddy's immortal cry of "they can have my Chivas bottle when they pry it from my cold, dead han-HHRRRRRK"?
That is all.
Link courtesy of PISSED, who I swear is working for a pharmaceutical company...
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The NCA (National Chivas Association) fell off the wagon about a year ago and was last seen lamenting the loss of 50% of their market.
Or are we going to hear Teddy's immortal cry of "they can have my Chivas bottle when they pry it from my cold, dead han-HHRRRRRK"?
THAT WAS A GOOD LOL!!!
Jay you do bring the funneh.
"... I'm struck by just how silent the anti-freedom folks are when a mass murder is committed with a weapon that is not a firearm."
Everybody remembers Charles Whitman. Nobody remembers the Bath School Massacre.
Doesn't make any sense to me either.
Finally a good use for Bacardi.
"Everybody remembers Charles Whitman. Nobody remembers the Bath School Massacre."
Or the Happy Land social club fire.
I looked that fire up on Wikipedia, just to refresh my memory...
"Found guilty on August 19, 1991, of 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder, González was sentenced to 174 twenty-five year sentences, to be served consecutively (a total of 4,350 years). It was the most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state of New York. He will be eligible for parole in March 2015."
"Found guilty on August 19, 1991, [...] González was sentenced to 174 twenty-five year sentences, to be served consecutively (a total of 4,350 years). [...] He will be eligible for parole in March 2015."
Okay, what's wrong with that, right there?
He was sentenced to 4,350 years in prison, but is eligible after only 24 years???!!! He could be out on the streets after serving only half of one percent of his sentence!!!!
Think about it. That sentence is 2/3 the length of recorded history. But he's eligible for parole within less time than I've been alive.
This is a profound illustration of how our justice system has become fundamentally f*cked up.
I'm assuming that the reason the criminals bought their assualt liquids at a U.S. alcohol show is that in Mexico only the police & military are allowed to have booze?
Or something like that.
About the Happy Land sentence dream v. parole reality: Jay, wouldn't you get more time in your state if caught with a post-ban normal capacity AR magazine?
Jake:
Yeah, I avoided pointing that out directly, figuring Jay or someone would pick up on that and explode in a red cloud of rage.
No, it doesn't make any sense to me, either, that he's even eligible for parole after 24 years of a 4,350 year sentence, but I just chalk that up to New York being New York.
"Or the Happy Land social club fire."
Forgive my language but, fuck, that's horrible. Never heard of it before.
Justin:
Yeah. I was 25 at the time, and it made a pretty big impression on me. Mostly in terms of the "who needs gun control when you can do that much damage with a pint of gasoline and some matches" argument.
In that vein, and if you want to get upset all over again, look up the Dupont Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico (1986).
This one's for you, Jake:
"Of the three employees accused of the fire, only one, Héctor Escudero Aponte, is still in prison. Armando Jimenez and José Francisco Rivera Lopez were released from federal prison in 2001 and 2002 respectively."
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