April 27, 2006
THANKS, NANCY:
America, Minus A Human Factor: From Guns to Bunions, A Statistical Portrait That Doesn't Quite Add Up (Joel Garreau, 4/27/06, Washington Post)
In 1979, there were an estimated 29,869,000 pot tokers in this country, but that number dropped pretty steadily, to 18,710,000 in 1998. Cocaine users dropped dramatically, from 10,459,000 in 1982 to 3,664,000 in 1995, before going up by half a million two years later. What was that about? Crack?Posted by Orrin Judd at April 27, 2006 7:43 AMSuch random, mind-boggling connections are the beauty and sensational weirdness of the recently released, 28.5-pound, $825, five-volume Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition.
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Only 900 guns per thousand persons? Well, that population total includes the unarmed babes in arms, prison inmates, quadrapalegics and members of cloistered orders, so the actual level of armament among those who may be armed is much higher that 1:1.
Nope. No militia. None at all. Nothing to see here.
Only a Democrat could could be so stupid as to take on an institution of such force.
Posted by: Lou Gots at April 27, 2006 12:26 PM