Guns are apparently important in Utah
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Ah, Utah. The land of, well… wait, what are they known for besides Mormons and skiing? I wasn’t sure either until I read this today from the AP:
State lawmakers are debating whether to designate a semiautomatic pistol as the official gun of Utah, despite protests from people who believe it’s inappropriate because of recent mass shootings.
The bill to make the Browning M1911 the official gun breezed through a committee hearing this week and is scheduled to be debated by the full House as early as Wednesday.
Republican Rep. Carl Wimmer said the state should have the gun as one of its state symbols to honor John Browning, a Utah native who invented it in 1911.
Interesting. So one of the things Utah is proudest of is their ability to create mass produced instruments of death.
Of course, in fairness, Utah has 24 other official state symbols including “a state cooking pot, a state tree, a state hymn and a state folk dance.” However, I think that all we need to know about the gun culture in many parts of the United States can be summed up in the fact that politicians are willing to publicly honor them in the same manner as hymns and folk dances. And while it’s true that, ultimately, people kill people; I don’t hear of them doing it too often with cooking pots.
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I say there are not enough guns**. We should require them starting in kindergarten. WTF are these people doing about jobs and cleaning the environment and you know, real issues. I am like CH up there, about sick of politicians and the Kabuki right now.
**Please don’t make me have to do the disclaimer here.
I’m all heated up-gonna strap mine on right now and rub it.
LOL! I hope you are talking about your gun, I mean weapon 🙂
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Jesus. Transparent fools. I’m so sick of politicians in general right now. Whores, the bunch of them. One of them, in the photo up above, is about to get his fingers blown off from mishandling the official state gun.
Ha, I hadn’t even noticed that.
Lord help us, what’s next- state underwear?
Magical I presume?
yes definitely magical! lol
I think they actually have those, de facto at least. It’s those funky Mormon jumpers without legs and sleeves they wear.
I have been around guns all my adult life but they were tools of the trade, nothing more or less. I do know several people, however, who exhibit an almost “worship” of their guns. I know a guy who have 35 guns, a mixture of handguns, long guns and assault rifles. He never uses them. He just cleans them, all the time. Curiously he is one of the kindest people on this earth. As to Utah….what can one say for a state that prioritizes weaponry in a time of violent rhetoric and violent acts. One more thing: A Browning? I wouldn’t own one. I’m a Beretta kind of guy 🙂 Good post Michael.
Oddly enough, Ive also been well exposed to guns as my father was a police officer for 30 years. I have a healthy respect for them and understand their power, especially handguns. It’s not as if one needs those for hunting (which is an activity I have little issue with, but no interest in). Handguns are designed to do only one thing – kill people. I don’t understand at all why anyone would choose to keep them in their home. My father got rid of the couple of guns he had when he retired. He no longer had any use for them. We don’t live on the frontier anymore.
I still have my service weapon Mike. It is given to us old cops upon retirement, so I have it in a case somewhere. Like your Dad, however, I no longer have any use for it. I do keep a shotgun, however, unless some seriously bad guy got over my fences, around the cameras, and through the German shepherds and try to steal my girlfriend 🙂
Actually, come to think of it, I think my dad may still have an antique shotgun that he once got as a gift. I’m quite certain it hasn’t been fired in decades though. It would surely be useless against the bands of potential home invaders that rove the streets of the pleasant suburb where my parents live…
Don’t forget his sighted, squirrel killing BB gun.
Oh yea, this is the truth. My blogger enemy is a Utah snob who LOVES guns and talks frequently about them on her blog as well as posting family pictures of their 10 kids and all the guns they own. One was a butt shot of her 500.00 dollar jeweled jeans with a gun sticking out of her back pocket…UGH!
I am fascinated by the term “blogger enemy.”