According to user generated Google Maps place-marks, gun references exceed pizza shops and strip clubs references in the Land of the Seven Hills.
Got the staff thinking... sign of an insurrection? It may not necessarily be the citizenry who are up in arms. The Boston Globe has reported on the accumulation of thousands of weapons by a particularly sizable segment - as in army sizable - of the population: Even Small Localities Got Big Guns.
After you read the Globe article consider why the 23 man Clinton, MA police department needs 18 assault rifles and a Sherman tank. Hint. They got sumptin really big to protect from dastardly terrorists.
Anyway the author of The Great American "Pizza Map, Matt Zook, has a somewhat different take. He's spent considerable time over the past months analyzing the distribution of a number of strangely juxtaposed social phenomenon (ranging from religion to bars), today's map should come as no surprise to anyone. After all, isn't the comparison between the number of user generated references to "pizza", "guns" or "strip club" an obvious one to make? Perhaps not, but we're doing it anyway. ...
