Well, it makes it more relevant to wear those Babies, Guns & Jesus t-shirts, anyway.

WA should jump on a bill for State Sex Position before all the good ones are taken.

Speaking of gun-crazy country, this story about another shooting of a 9 year old girl in the Tucson area is pretty horrifying...

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As a wounded Gina Gonzalez played dead on the floor of her mobile home in Arivaca, Arizona, in May 2009, she silently told herself to “stay real calm.” Her goal, Gonzalez told a Tucson jury on Tuesday, was to survive so she could save her 9-year-old daughter from the tall intruder in blackface who had already shot Gonzalez twice and killed her husband, Raul Flores. The killer “was all out of bullets,” Gonzalez testified, so he reloaded as her child, Brisenia Flores, pleaded for her life. Then Gonzalez heard two shots, and from the corner of her eye she saw her daughter’s body “fall back on the couch.”

Gonzalez is a chief prosecution witness in the murder trial of Shawna Forde, a beautician and hardcore nativist from Everett, Washington. Forde is accused of masterminding the killings as part of her plan to steal drugs and money to fund her fledgling group Minuteman American Defense, which she envisioned would patrol the Arizona border in search of illegal “invaders.” She has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges, and her lawyer has tried to portray Raul Flores as a drug dealer and user, although only pot residue was found in the Flores trailer after the murders. The trial, whose opening arguments began on Tuesday, comes as Tucson tries to return to normalcy after the shootings that left six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-s…

Well, I'd go buy myself a 1911 to celebrate . . . if I didn't already have three. Always room for one more, though, right?

@3 Thanks for bringing this story to my attention, Brody. Simply bone-chilling.

@5, not really sure why this story isn't front page news right now

Nothing wrong with a state gun. Particularly a design that is celebrating its centennial year. The M1911 will probably still be in use 100 years from now.

Why do you have to call it a 'Gun-Crazy Country'? How about 'Gun-Enthusiast Country'?

@6 It was covered pretty extensively back when it happened.

@8, maybe so, but the trial is happening now, in the backyard of the Gifford shooting...

Wenn ich das Wort Kultur hoere reiche ich nach meiner Browning.

The best thing is the 19 opposed were probably fans of another gun, rather than people thinking they didn't need a state gun.

Naw. John Moses Browning was something of a rake in his day; my guess would be that's why they opposed it. Which is weird, because that's never been much of a problem for the Mormon church til now.

Isn't it nice that there is so little for the Utah legislature to do that they have time to pass bullshit crap like this? Their education system is bursting at the seams, they're going to be cutting teachers (again!) and closing schools, the economy sucks, but their priority is getting a state gun on the books.

What it is, is embarrassing. Fuck Utah and it's plenitude of Utahrds.