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For a town with the nickname Sin City, Vegas sure is full of whiny girls.
Recently the town's paper, the Review-Journal, hit up the Vegas' mayor for his thoughts on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas. The mayor, who has in fact never seen the game, was quick to get all bent out of shape about Rainbow Six's potential impact on his drug-infested, gambling-centric town.
"It could be harmful economically, and it may be something that's not entitled to free speech (protection)," Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said of the game's realistic scenes, which he had not personally viewed.
"It's based on a false premise," Goodman said, adding federal and state leaders have repeatedly assured him that Las Vegas is "the safest place imaginable" nearly five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the East Coast.
"I will ask ... whether or not we can stop it," Goodman said of the game's planned November release.
The town's sheriff also chimed in, saying that he's not a "big believer on pushing violence on young people anymore..." Anymore?
So the countless books, television shows and movies that show violence in Las Vegas are fine and dandy, but make a game about that and you're stepping over the line? I like the way you think Goodman, you should be a politican.
Terror on the Strip [Review-Journal]
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