Originally published at: Woman sets fire to video gambling machine, subsequently shot by another person who wanted to keep playing | Boing Boing
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Texas really wants to be Florida, doesn’t it?
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They’re Sister States, it’s envy & jealousy, not in a good way either.
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“The Aristocrats!”
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This is one of the most Texas things I’ve ever heard about Texas.
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The only way to stop this sort of thing is to arm the slot machines.
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Freedoms!
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They already have one-armed bandits
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The woman who set the machine on fire was clearly rioting. As the Ritenhouse trial proves, shooting rioters is completely legal. I think Matt Gaetz is about to get a new intern.
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Maybe that’s why so many Texans want to secede - they know they can never be in first place in a federation of states that includes Florida. 
Damn - and I see @anon87143080 beat me to the comment about one-armed bandits.
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Gamblin’n’gunz, a marriage made in, uh…I don’t know.
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At least someone is a sore loser…
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Can we build a wall around texas? have we reached peak texas yet?
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So tell me again how an armed society is a polite one. /s
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How about we just sell it back to Mexico with a long lease on Austin.
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This feels like Peak America.
Let’s face it, “Florida” is just synecdoche for all of America.
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I thought you had to check your guns before entering the saloon in the olde west.
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Vegas?
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Yes.
Laws regulating ownership and carry of firearms, apart from the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, were passed at a local level rather than by Congress. “Gun control laws were adopted pretty quickly in these places,” says Winkler. “Most were adopted by municipal governments exercising self-control and self-determination.” Carrying any kind of weapon, guns or knives, was not allowed other than outside town borders and inside the home. When visitors left their weapons with a law officer upon entering town, they’d receive a token, like a coat check, which they’d exchange for their guns when leaving town.
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