Looking at the source it turns out that in states where one Senator is a Republican and the other is a Democrat they assume that both represent 100% of the people in their state, thus allowing for greater than 100% representation... Ah idealists! (Quick side note: one wonders why, per the chart, Arkansas has no position on the issue...)
A shooting sports web site, creatively named Ammoland, celebrates that approximately 14 million firearms were purchased in the U.S. in 2009. This apparently is "... more Than 21 of the Worlds Standing Armies Combined..." and "... In a year were crime has reached an all time record low what is plainly clear is that more guns equal LESS CRIME!" Hmm, perhaps not all would agree.
However, putting aside discussion re if this is something positive or negative, the following math howler then appears: "... Assuming each gun buyer bought 1000 rounds of ammo for each purchase, and you and I know that it is way, way more than that, that would be easily 14,033,824,000+ billions rounds of ammo fired by USA gun owners..."
Wow - so approximately fourteen million times one thousand does not come to fourteen billion but to fourteen billion billion! Fourteen quadrillion! Who knew?
Yup, we should certainly be safe, assuming that we have space to store all this ammo (let's see, that comes to over 45 million rounds for each and every one of 310 million people living in the U.S.)! And if these rounds have all been fired that certainly would account for global warming...
“In 80 percent of cases there is a dispute. The people are arguing with the IRS about business expenses, non-business expenses, deductions, tax credits and exemptions. And in a lot of these cases, the IRS turns out to be wrong. I’m not sure how many of those cases apply to Senate and House staffers, but just because you’re fighting with the IRS doesn’t mean you’re wrong.”
Source: "1945 - 1998" Multimedia 'artwork' by Isao Hashimoto. Counts out the 2,053 nuclear explosions carried out around the globe in this period...
Source: Questions and Answers about the Financial Crisis. Prepared for the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Quote: "...In this note, I pose and try to answer what I think are the most relevant questions about the crisis. I focus on the systemic crisis, not other attendant issues. I do not have all the answers by any means. But, I know enough to see that the level of public discourse is politically motivated and based on a lack of understanding, as it has been in the past, as the opening quotations indicate. The goal of this note is to help raise the level of discourse..."
Source: 63 Reasons To Stop Smoking
