Looking For a New Set of Wheels?

If we continue to allow people to sue Dora the Explorer for turning their kids into fat, lazy, do-nothing, layabouts, imagine the lawsuits we'll be seeing when a hard-working member of Gangbangers Local 14 gets shot full of holes while driving down Blue Hill Ave. in his new bulletproof Tacoma.

Here'’s one pickup line you may have not heard before.

A local advertising agency is pitching the Toyota Tacoma utility truck as "bulletproof" in spots airing on Boston radio, driving home the message in an announcer'’s macho voice that whether on the road or "“out in the middle of nowhere, bulletproof counts."”

An overstated metaphor for durability? Presumably. But to a city still grappling with last year's decade-high homicide rate and now an upswing in reported shootings, the Tacoma campaign is drawing fire.

If a 12-gauge slug or a 7.62mm round will bounce off of that truck, I think I've just found my next vehicle.

I'm stunned our benevolent legislators - who are always so concerned about revenue public "safety" - haven't proposed legislation requiring that all new vehicles sold in the Commonwealth be equipped with armor plating and bulletproof glass, and that all cars currently on the road in the Commonwealth be retrofitted accordingly.

I mean, they're all about public safety, right?

Who could be against protecting babies from gunfire?

IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!

COST BE DAMNED!

As my less-than-honorable city councilor, Rob Consalvo, would say:

Consalvo acknowledged that the cost of [installing armor plating and bulletproof glass on all passenger vehicles in the Commonwealth] could be high, but that it would be worth it.