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Case: SHOT Show has a way of bringing me back to Las Vegas

AP file photo by Lisa Marie Pane / The SHOT Show in Las Vegas keeps "Guns & Cornbread" columnist Larry Case coming back to Las Vegas each winter.
AP file photo by Lisa Marie Pane / The SHOT Show in Las Vegas keeps "Guns & Cornbread" columnist Larry Case coming back to Las Vegas each winter.

LAS VEGAS — Sometimes the irony of me being in this place is slightly overwhelming. I mean, it is huge and garish and loud and bright and glittery and almost otherworldly. That’s just kind of how I see Las Vegas.

That is only my opinion, you understand. I have told you before that my opinion, 6 dollars and 29 cents of American money will get you what is probably a bad cup of coffee in some places.

Lots and lots of people like Las Vegas. Lots and lots of people come to Nevada’s biggest city, all year long, and they spend lots and lots of money. I’m glad for all that. If they want to come here and spend money and have a good time, I say more power to them.

It just may not be the first place I would go to vacation.

So about this time you are saying, “Well, Larry, if that is the case, what are you doing in Vegas to begin with?”