RE: Flash visit to Utah State Capitol building - staircase, flag and weapons

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roleerob in Worldmappin • 7 months ago

Yes, @livinguktaiwan, the architecture of that building is remarkable. And, as you say, that would be the case for most any other state capital building as well. My mother, upon retiring, was proud of touring the mainland portion of America for two years and visiting all 48 of them ...

Less well known / understood, is how much the same idea applies to the County buildings in much of the United States. In my family history efforts (being a "mutt" American, in searching for clues about our "immigrant ancestors" ... 😉) over the years, I have been in a number of them. They can be in comparatively isolated corners of our great country and I have been awed more than once by what it must have taken in "time and treasure" to build them. Some of them are truly "masterpieces" ...

Oh yes ... Security in them would probably also make you cringe ... As a freedom-loving American, I have always been fine with it, as I had far too much experience (as one contrasting example ...) traveling by air and having to take my shoes off every time to get on the plane due to the FAILED attempt by some deranged Brit to try to blow up exactly ONE plane exactly ONE time ... 😒🤷‍♂️

7 months ago in Worldmappin by roleerob

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livinguktaiwan 7 months ago

So there are gems to be found in the county buildings as well? I'm sure they must be well hidden as they're probably not so well known as the state Capitol ones.

Did your mother keep a journal of all her visits to buildings? She must have done loads of travel over those two years. Amazing!!

Until the conversation with the security guard, I never really thought about how freely one can walk around carrying their weapon. It's a bit scary in a way, but thankfully it's not like there are many lunatics walking around flashing their be weapon!!

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roleerob 7 months ago

Yes, they are architectural gems for certain. I cannot imagine, if you saw some of them, that you or anyone would disagree. I have always marveled at what it must have taken to build them generations ago, in such relatively remote locations.

One fascinating part of where you would find many of them is in what are called the "county seats," i.e. the little towns in which they are found were the economic (and anything else of significance) center for their local area. As such, you can still find these architectural marvels in the center of a "city square," i.e. surrounded by gardens and nice landscaping, with all the businesses and such then found facing that square in the 4 streets surrounding it.

Yes, my mother kept a very detailed journal. Her "travels with Grandma" is a family treasure, as a result. Let's say ... Her "road less traveled" view of America ... 🫡😉

"It's a bit scary in a way ..."

Yes, I can somewhat imagine how that would be the case. Especially given the way this issue is typically represented in the press in far too many places. Sadly, these reports seldom miss the chance to portray this in a negative fashion. Never positive ... You rarely hear how these people are very responsible and are actually a part of the societal fabric preserving our safety here "in land of the free and the the home of the brave."

As part of this negative reporting, I cannot remember literally in my lifetime ever hearing about why America even has a Second Amendment. The endless arguments are almost always focused (intentionally?) in such a way that you will never hear it?

Hear what?

The Second Amendment was intended to preserve the right of the American people to protect themselves against any future tyrannical governments, having just emerged victorious over exactly this ... The idea being, as much as they could responsibly manage it, to ensure it would never happen again ...

A conversation I had with two Australians seated across from me in our train ride down into London many years ago comes to mind. Beginning with them saying ...

"What is it with you Yanks and your guns?"

... and ending with them being educated (they freely acknowledged this, at the end of it ...) about what they had never heard before and our common agreement about what the outcome might have been in the (at that time, quite recent) massacre in Tiananmen square had the Chinese people had a similar constitutionally protected right ...

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