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| MTV rap videos save lives in Times Square shootout | |
| 2009-12-13 | |
| Check it out, yo! A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two shots, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. I'm pretty sure this is not what rappers mean when they talk about a "def jam." When scam artist Raymond "Ready" Martinez held the MAC-10-style gun parallel to the ground, it caused the ejecting shells to "stovepipe," or get caught vertically in the chamber, the sources said. The gun is designed to be fired only in a vertical position. If he had fired the weapon -- which had another 27 rounds in the clip -- properly, Martinez, 25, could have killed the hero cop pursuing him and countless others walking through the swarming tourist mecca Thursday morning.
The fatal gun battle erupted after Martinez bolted from cops who approached him for aggressively peddling his own rap CDs to tourists and shaking them down for cash. Newsom gave chase and shouted for Martinez to put up his hands. Martinez instead pulled the machine gun from a sling under his coat and turned to fire as he ran into the parking breezeway within the Marriott Marquis Hotel.... In rap songs on his Web page, Martinez boasted of taking aim at a police sergeant... Bus this rhyme, Rantburg homies: I'm gonna run when they tell me to stop Hold my piece gangsta style and take down a cop There's a jam, it ain't def, when it e-jects the brass Instead of bein' killah I get the cap in my a-- They haul the body bag away It just ain't my day Nothin more to say 'Cept I shoulda learned proper firearms handlin' from the N-R-A | |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #16 "I've tried firing gangsta style at the range . . . but my accuracy plummets." But did you look/feel cool, rj? That's what really counts.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-13 21:18 |
| #15 I heard the side firing thing originally came about because of Israeli bodyguards and security. I'm not sure if it works for a particular kind of weapon or if that story is bogus or not. I've tried firing gangsta style at the range and not only do I feel foolish but my accuracy plummets. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-12-13 20:27 |
| #14 Wait, I thought NYC and Mayor Bloomberg have outlawed privately owned weapons like that. How could this happen? /sarc off 'When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns' seems to fit well. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-12-13 19:08 |
| #13 BP - that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard today. Thanks for sharing that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-13 16:52 |
| #12 LOL. Fun and Funny. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-13 15:56 |
| #11 Hollywood and MTV very often get firearms wrong such as safety, use, and maintenance. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-13 15:51 |
| #10 Wrong one. Shooting School. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-12-13 15:46 |
| #9 Link |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-12-13 15:43 |
| #8 Per haps Carlos Mencia's shooting school would bein order |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-12-13 15:42 |
| #7 MAC-10? Jeez, that is SO 80s. Couldn't he have gotten at least a TEK-9 or other threatening-looking black gun? At least that way there would have been some rationale for further gun control. As it is, it was just portrayed as a garden-variety "cop shoots Times Square denizen" and just adds to the contempt of police instead of a larger issue. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-12-13 15:14 |
| #6 Hope you don't mind this from Chris Rock. NSFW. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-12-13 14:23 |
| #5 The Nyte Sytes are good and all, but what the fashion conscious gang banger really needs are rear view shades. Looking back to fire slows one down too much and is prone to tripping and that's not cool. And the smart gang banger/drug dealer/rapster needs an extra pair of eyes to watch his back, even if it's his own. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-13 13:06 |
| #4 Naaahhhh, FR - they're just stupid. (As in, "Too stupid to live really should be a valid diagnosis.") |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-13 13:04 |
| #3 It is left to doctors and psychiatrists whether the willful use of a firearm 'gangsta style' is a symptom of that little-talked-about phenomenon 'Suicide By Cop.' |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-12-13 12:55 |
| #2 Homeboy Nyte Sytes :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-13 12:27 |
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| Posted by: john frum 2009-12-13 11:57 |