I’m not going to call you out on calling Bosque County, Texas, backwater in your little brief about Glenn Beck moving there, for the Dallas Morning News‘ Bruce Tomaso already did that.
Instead, I’m going to call you out on math. Yes, I know we’re all journalists because of the existence of Very Hard Math Classes in college, but really, this sentence?
In 2009, Texas had more deaths by firearm than New York and Connecticut combined.
You used it kind of as a throwaway at the end. I’m not sure why it was necessary. But let’s review. The 2010 census has Texas’ population at 25,145,561. New York has a population of 19,378,102 and Connecticut’s is 3,574,097. This means that Texas has more people, period, than New York and Connecticut combined.
