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My wife and I spent an afternoon there when we were in Denver for a long weekend, so we explored town a bit. I wouldn’t move there, but by the same token, it does have a bit of an artsy neighborhood with galleries and and boutiques and coffee shops and whatnot. It is a government town (state capitol) and the university is not far away (like Ann Arbor to Detroit), so if any city in Wyoming is going to be halfway decent for educated people, that’s the one.

I don’t know … looks here like hybrid vehicle sales have experienced strong increases lately, especially last year (when I got mine). If Chevy doesn’t want to keep building PHEVs, I’d bet there are plenty of (foreign) car companies who will.

It won’t happen this year, but as more states with currently good economies go more and more medieval with their governance, like Florida, Georgia, and Texas, more and more companies are going to leave or refuse to relocate there, except to exploit cheap low-skilled labor that’s already in the state. With the possible exception of people who work for heavy manufacturing companies, few educated white collar people will want to relocate there.

I’d bet if/when hybrids can increase their battery range from ~20 miles to ~50 miles, meaning most trips that most people take would be within battery range, sales would explode through the roof. I myself am hoping for something like that by the time I’m ready for another car in 2024. And once that happened, the oil companies that ramped up production to meet this single moment’s demand would be sitting on a glut of gasoline, and the prices would crash by probably half, which would spur an increase in sales of gas guzzlers. It’s all cyclical.

Move the team to Montreal.

Cowardly, conniving, hindering and blundering. Bad combination for someone in charge with a gun.

Armando can take cold comfort from the fact that he had a more productive career than Philip Humber.

I could see Fox ... ahem ... whitewashing that fact by claiming the people back then didn't use the word with hate. It was a just another word, like "chair" or "tree" or "rope".

That's a shame. I like what I've heard about the guy so far.

I never think about it, and I live in THE bogeyman city. Public mass shootings are so rare it's not even worth gaming out what to do if it happens. The only sure thing that happens during a mass shooting is chaos. Your only job is to hide or get the hell out of the way. You don't want to be the guy who starts shooting at a perp and ends up killing a bystander by complete accident. You wouldn't want that on your soul.

Cheyenne is a neat little town in spots. It's like "Milwaukee" to Denver.

Exactly how is the info "slanted"? It's firearms deaths by state, and political affiliation of their legislatures. It's all very straightforward information. What part do you not believe?

Is it any shock coming from a guy whose last name sounds so much like both "Gomer" and "Goober"?

Saw this and immediately felt the need to put this table together, ranked by 2020 firearm mortality rate, and using color-coding to show just how weighted to one party the problem really is. I'm being generous by including governors here because the gun legislation comes from the state houses and senates, and not out of the governor's mansion.

Republicans could hardly be doing a better job trying to drive talented people out of their states and steer their economies into the shitter if they reinstated Jim Crow laws.

If we were playing a Kremlin Talking Points drinking game, I would have been dead of alcohol poisoning before finishing reading this post.

That's one way to approach it. I'm not sure how much they put into it now. They would also need to put resources into stopping straw purchase sales, as well as identifying unscrupulous or corrupt legally-licensed gun dealers who flout the law now and certainly would then.

I understand that some folks here are now thinking that I believe higher taxes on guns and ammo is stupid and will never work, even though I never said as much. I don't think that. I do believe that guns should be expensive and hard to obtain. All I'm saying is that if taxes on guns and ammo go up by a whole lot, they're going to have to deal with the dramatic expansion of the black market that is practically certain to occur in its wake. You could probably say the same thing about making it harder to buy guns, something I totally support as well. If they decided to make buying a gun a lot harder by enacting measures like stricter acquisition standards or mandatory gun education or renewable licensing or anything along those lines, I believe that even if they were to not raise the price of guns by a single penny, the black market would dramatically expand under that circumstance as well.

Jack up the taxes on guns and ammo and a lot more people are going to be motivated to find out how to get a cheaper gun on the black market.

The higher the taxes, the worse it would get.

Super high taxes would make it even worse because then ordinary clean people with jobs would start gravitating to the black market for guns, instead of going to the local gun store and paying all those taxes.

Either that or you would have to raise teacher pay by 10K or 20K on average to convince men who like carrying guns to become teachers.

The only real problem I can think of with super high taxes on guns or ammo would be a thriving black market in stolen guns and ammo.

I don’t see how you get a workforce that is 75% women to agree to arm themselves in preparation for working with children all day. Arming teachers is an intellectually and morally bankrupt idea that is dead in the water. Besides, what good is arming teachers gonna do, anyway? The entire Uvalde police department was not only armed, but purportedly trained in engaging active shooters, and look how much good that did.

We’ve always had such kooks around us, but one big difference now is that instead of living in their basements and going into the woods and distributing unhinged propaganda through hand-made pamphlets, now they can get a nice condo in the suburbs and clean themselves up and put on makeup and go into a nice studio with an impressive greenscreen and distribute unhinged propaganda through videos.