Utah Leads States in Gun Sale Growth Over Past Decade, Study Shows
KSL.com | 10/17/2019SALT LAKE CITY — As lawmakers heard statistics Wednesday on the state of gun crime in Utah, a new study shows Utah’s rate of gun ownership has increased more than any other state over the past decade.
. . . Utah’s rate of gun sales per 1,000 adults grew 80.4% between 2009 and 2018.
Only the District of Columbia, which recorded a jump of over 600%, had a greater increase.
. . . scientifically proving, by global warming’s standards, that Mitt Romney’s presence anywhere leads to an increase in gun purchases. What the heck is his carbine footprint?
Utah also posted a low age-adjusted rate of gun-related homicides per 100,000 population — 2.2, tied for sixth-fewest . . .
Hmm. You’d think they would have buried that lack of correlation a little bit better.
I’m also curious what an “age-adjusted rate of gun-related homicides” even means. Either you homicide someone or you don’t, even if you’re a newborn with an Uzi. (Catch phrase for preemie Terminator: “I C U!”)
“Without a doubt, the American relationship to guns is long and complex,” the report said in its conclusion, “seemingly growing more complex by the day.”
Sniper rifles are long and complex. Americans’ relationship to them is not.
The relationship does not get a Facebook category of “it’s complicated.” Geez, guns haven’t even changed their preferred pronouns since the country began.
(If the Second Amendment’s twenty-seven words are “growing more complex by the day,” just imagine how complex they’ll be by the time Mandatory Gun Buy-Back Day rolls around!)
I can picture a scene from Baby Terminator now–
Two candystripers walk into the nursery, start checking on the babies. The camera focuses in on one and, after a moment we hear the report of automatic gunfire. The candystriper’s expression turns to shock and horror (yes, a two-fer emotional reaction) as she looks across the room to see the other girl’s bullet-riddled body slumped on the floor. Suddenly Baby Terminator sits up in his bassinet, Uzi in his hand, looks at the remaining candystriper and asks, “Now who needs a diaper change?”
“Baptism …. by fire!”
Catch phrase for baby terminator could be I C Q.
Catch phrase for musical terminator?
I’ll be Bach.
smack
Sorry.