Giving reality a middle finger, Las Vegas still loves machine guns and Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson slot machines are still available in the wake of LEAVING NEVERLAND, the Cirque du Soleil show still runs at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and the MGM Grand Hotel still believes “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” is an eternal banger that must not be pulled from its music PA playlist.

And the Mandalay Bay-based massacre of innocent country music festival fans means nothing.  You can shoot machine guns from the ground (one business is called Battlefield Vegas) or from a helicopter (which at least travels into the desert before allowing customers to fire away).

As the late David Brenner said (in a different context referring to performing in clubs, but relevant here): “You can do anything in Vegas.”

Two more things you can do in Las Vegas.

"You can do anything in Vegas."--comment from decades past by (if I'm recalling correctly) veteran comic David Brenner (original context referring to what a comic could get away with on-stage, though a broader meaning will be applied to this post).

For $29.00, you can go to Battlefield Las Vegas behind the Circus Circus Hotel and shoot an Uzi.

For ten times that much ($299), you can drive around the local racetrack for an hour in the high-end sportscar of your choice.

And that's in addition to all the other unfettered options available to the Vegas vacationer (sex, high-and-low-roller gambling, alcohol, extravagant shows, shopping malls for the top 1/2 %, smoking cigarettes/cigars just about anywhere, etc. etc.).