It has been less than two months since Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head and critically wounded, along with numerous other people, six of whom were killed. More recently, a woman was sentence to death for cold bloodedly murdering a father and his daughter for committing the gross social faux pas of being Mexican.
Still, I’m sure Arizonans can find something to be proud of. Scenic deserts. The Grand Canyon. Lake Mead. Guns.
They Are Proud of Their Heritage
Guns? Guns? WTF?
Wonkette correspondent Cord Jefferson reports:
Sponsored by 43 of the 90 members of the Arizona legislature, the new bill seeks to make the Colt single-action Army revolver the “official state firearm” of Arizona. In January, lawmakers in Utah moved to make M1911 semi-automatic pistol the official gun of that state. In a Facebook group advocating for all states to adopt official state guns, the administrator writes, “States have symbols such as flags, birds, dinosaurs, reptiles, insects, flowers, even cookware. None of these symbols would have become necessary without guns and the freedoms they helped our forefathers obtain.”
The whole idea of a bill in praise of a gun, any gun, at this point in history, is so completely offensive it is just bizarre. Haven’t they been watching the news? Secondly, though, that last sentence is composed of such mind boggling stupidity that it is almost a work of genius. “None of these symbols would have become necessary…..”
None of these symbols ARE necessary. I’m sure that a hefty percentage of the people reading this blog are Americans. How many of you can name your state bird? state flower? Do you feel a tug at the old heartstrings when your state flag passes by? Can you sing your state song? Those are not the things that make you proud (or embarrassed) to be from where you’re from. Then we come down to things like official state dinosaur, insect, reptile, cookware (unsurprisingly, Arkansas and Utah). Really, how silly is that? Most people are not particularly fond of insects or reptiles and dinosaurs have not existed for about 65 million years. What’s next? The official state salad? The official state tennis shoe? The official state cartoon?
Anyway, as to the choice of gun: at least it wasn’t a Glock semi-automatic.
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OK. I have heard of the ‘Wild West’. Yes, hyper-testosterone laden men love their freedom to roam, kill living things, brag about their conquests–human, female and animal. You know what they say about ‘overcompensating’ with large, loud guns, rifles, trucks, voices, violence, etc. So I am not surprised at this. This reveals the ignorance of these men (and misguided, dependent women) and their own low self-esteem. I think a better ‘state emblem’ to be proud of would be the percentage of college graduates, the number of homeless provided with a home and job or income, the number of new companies or jobs created. When will people overcome their Neanderthal/primitive tendencies with thinking, using their brains instead of their ‘animal instincts’.
The state bird of Iowa is the goldfinch, the state flower the wild rose, and the state song to the melody of “Ö Tannenbam”:
You ask what land i love the best
Iowa, ’tis Iowa
The fairest state in all the west
Iowa ’tis Iowa
From muddy Mississippi stream, to where Missouri’s waters gleam
You ask what land I love the best
Iowa, ’tis Iowa
Or that’s the way I remember it, and why it’s not the Tall Corn Song, I don’t know.
And the state rock is the geode