In a country with 320 million people, if we have a school shooting every 4 years or so, a mass murder every year or so, thats not that bad!
If you compare populations, America isnt much worse than any other free country!
Compare to England, Austrailia, France, Germany, Japan, China, Russia, etc.
Also, counties with tough gun restrictions have the most murders! Fact
Yeah, it's not that bad when YOUR kids aren't involved is a very easy thing to say. Let your child get gun down Newtown style and let's see if you still feel the same.
Peace
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
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In a country with 320 million people, if we have a school shooting every 4 years or so, a mass murder every year or so, thats not that bad!
If you compare populations, America isnt much worse than any other free country!
Compare to England, Austrailia, France, Germany, Japan, China, Russia, etc.
Also, counties with tough gun restrictions have the most murders! Fact
Yeah, it's not that bad when YOUR kids aren't involved is a very easy thing to say. Let your child get gun down Newtown style and let's see if you still feel the same.
Peace
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys![/quote]
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport!
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
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If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
Fair enough I was a pre school teacher and defending children while armed would not and should not be ANY teacher's responsibility.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
Fair enough I was a pre school teacher and defending children while armed would not and should not be ANY teacher's responsibility.
Peace[/quote]
Smart, economical and safer!
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
I dont oppose all forms of taxes! I oppose wasteful govt. spending!
ALSO****Economical means that metal detectors would support that industry. AND economical means instead of having 200 guns in each school on teachers, we would have only one gun on one security guard, thus creating another job! Got it?
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
You want the kids to grow up feeling safe?
And, at the same time, distrustful of all? Growing up to keep a trained eye on the passing stranger? Ready to pounce of the slightest threatening gesture might be made or perceived? So much for loving your neighbour and fellow countrymen when every person may just be a threat.
What a grand vision for your country!
Your comments seem to reflect the notion that you have given up on hope. You're basically saying you're screwed... so in light of the fact you're screwed... get ready for the shitstorm!
Instead of all the reactive and precautionary measures aimed at dealing with the inevitable... do you have anything to offer that might have a chance of actually 'bettering' conditions for your country?
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
You want the kids to grow up feeling safe?
And, at the same time, distrustful of all? Growing up to keep a trained eye on the passing stranger? Ready to pounce of the slightest threatening gesture might be made or perceived? So much for loving your neighbour and fellow countrymen when every person may just be a threat.
What a grand vision for your country!
Your comments seem to reflect the notion that you have given up on hope. You're basically saying you're screwed... so in light of the fact you're screwed... get ready for the shitstorm!
Instead of all the reactive and precautionary measures aimed at dealing with the inevitable... do you have anything to offer that might have a chance of actually 'bettering' conditions for your country?[/quote]
What country are you from?
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
I love Canada for many reasons! So vast and large with a small population! So nice, if I liked cold weather I would think of moving there. You are blessed and fortunate to have a small population with so many vast resources. You have less people than our largest metro area! As far as culture, you cannot even begin to compare the two countries for many obvious reasons.
I say when we took God out of our classrooms, our culture began to change for the worse. Progressives and acid! Thats where it all went bad!
I was in Toronto for PJ 20 on 9/11/11 and it was awesome! However, the city's people were almost rioting in the streets between 2-3 am as if they were ready to kill people or the police! It was a shame and I would be embarrassed if I hosted anyone there to my home city and it acted like that. I couldnt beleive the atmoshphere, as if they were all entitled and they had something to prove. I guess they feel like MEN when in large numbers.
USA does have 320 million people which is about 11 times that of Canada. We had about 10,000 murders last year. I wonder if Canada had 800 or so?
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
I love Canada for many reasons! So vast and large with a small population! So nice, if I liked cold weather I would think of moving there. You are blessed and fortunate to have a small population with so many vast resources. You have less people than our largest metro area! As far as culture, you cannot even begin to compare the two countries for many obvious reasons.
I say when we took God out of our classrooms, our culture began to change for the worse. Progressives and acid! Thats where it all went bad!
I was in Toronto for PJ 20 on 9/11/11 and it was awesome! However, the city's people were almost rioting in the streets between 2-3 am as if they were ready to kill people or the police! It was a shame and I would be embarrassed if I hosted anyone there to my home city and it acted like that. I couldnt beleive the atmoshphere, as if they were all entitled and they had something to prove. I guess they feel like MEN when in large numbers.
USA does have 320 million people which is about 11 times that of Canada. We had about 10,000 murders last year. I wonder if Canada had 800 or so?
So lack of religion is the cause? Please explain...
Also, even if you look per capita figures, America is streets ahead in terms of death by firearms, care to explain that one to a godless heathen like myself?
I love Canada for many reasons! So vast and large with a small population! So nice, if I liked cold weather I would think of moving there. You are blessed and fortunate to have a small population with so many vast resources. You have less people than our largest metro area! As far as culture, you cannot even begin to compare the two countries for many obvious reasons.
I say when we took God out of our classrooms, our culture began to change for the worse. Progressives and acid! Thats where it all went bad!
I was in Toronto for PJ 20 on 9/11/11 and it was awesome! However, the city's people were almost rioting in the streets between 2-3 am as if they were ready to kill people or the police! It was a shame and I would be embarrassed if I hosted anyone there to my home city and it acted like that. I couldnt beleive the atmoshphere, as if they were all entitled and they had something to prove. I guess they feel like MEN when in large numbers.
USA does have 320 million people which is about 11 times that of Canada. We had about 10,000 murders last year. I wonder if Canada had 800 or so?
but I thought you couldn't compare the cultures?
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Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
Well it looks like Canada has about 1/11th of the crime that the USA does, so how could you or anyone else from Canada, criticize the USA? Also do you have gun ownership? if not, how can you have murders?
Theres no time like the present
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
Well it looks like Canada has about 1/11th of the crime that the USA does, so how could you or anyone else from Canada, criticize the USA? Also do you have gun ownership? if not, how can you have murders?
Geez man. Get out from your cave.
2010 data:
Canada 170 shooting homicides.
USA 8,775 shooting homicides.
* This is actually 1.9% of the crime the USA does... not 1/11th (9%).
Taking into account the differing population numbers... we see the following homicide by firearm rate:
Canada with a rate of 0.51 per 100,000 people.
US with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people.
"Since the introduction of stricter gun laws in 1991, there has been a 65 per cent reduction in homicides by long guns, Statistics Canada data shows. The reduction in homicides involving any type of firearm was 37 per cent."
Hmmmm. Interesting. Hmmmm. Hey... the best news? Our government hasn't gone all tyrannical and such. Go figure.
Well, I'm not anti-gun per se (not gonna recount my parameters of "per se" anymore either). Just wanted to say that our local news ran an update on the gun buy-back program - 1,100 turned in at one location alone today. This is good. People who can't handle, or don't need or want them - among others - shouldn't have them around.
And yes... we have gun ownership. Just not bazookas, rocket launchers, or assault rifles.
Oh yeah... no tanks either.
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys!
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
If something happens then i want guns around to stop the bad guys![/quote]
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport!
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
Fair enough I was a pre school teacher and defending children while armed would not and should not be ANY teacher's responsibility.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
Fair enough I was a pre school teacher and defending children while armed would not and should not be ANY teacher's responsibility.
Peace[/quote]
Smart, economical and safer!
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
This place is too much at times.
Said by a someone who opposes all forms of taxes
I dont oppose all forms of taxes! I oppose wasteful govt. spending!
ALSO****Economical means that metal detectors would support that industry. AND economical means instead of having 200 guns in each school on teachers, we would have only one gun on one security guard, thus creating another job! Got it?
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
Does that mean arming teachers in ALL schools?
Peace[/quote]
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
You want the kids to grow up feeling safe?
And, at the same time, distrustful of all? Growing up to keep a trained eye on the passing stranger? Ready to pounce of the slightest threatening gesture might be made or perceived? So much for loving your neighbour and fellow countrymen when every person may just be a threat.
What a grand vision for your country!
Your comments seem to reflect the notion that you have given up on hope. You're basically saying you're screwed... so in light of the fact you're screwed... get ready for the shitstorm!
Instead of all the reactive and precautionary measures aimed at dealing with the inevitable... do you have anything to offer that might have a chance of actually 'bettering' conditions for your country?
NO! One armed guard in each school! Or maybe more depending on size of school! Also, metal detectors at doors. I want the kids to feel safe, as if you were in an airport![/quote]
You want the kids to grow up feeling safe?
And, at the same time, distrustful of all? Growing up to keep a trained eye on the passing stranger? Ready to pounce of the slightest threatening gesture might be made or perceived? So much for loving your neighbour and fellow countrymen when every person may just be a threat.
What a grand vision for your country!
Your comments seem to reflect the notion that you have given up on hope. You're basically saying you're screwed... so in light of the fact you're screwed... get ready for the shitstorm!
Instead of all the reactive and precautionary measures aimed at dealing with the inevitable... do you have anything to offer that might have a chance of actually 'bettering' conditions for your country?[/quote]
What country are you from?
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
I love Canada for many reasons! So vast and large with a small population! So nice, if I liked cold weather I would think of moving there. You are blessed and fortunate to have a small population with so many vast resources. You have less people than our largest metro area! As far as culture, you cannot even begin to compare the two countries for many obvious reasons.
I say when we took God out of our classrooms, our culture began to change for the worse. Progressives and acid! Thats where it all went bad!
I was in Toronto for PJ 20 on 9/11/11 and it was awesome! However, the city's people were almost rioting in the streets between 2-3 am as if they were ready to kill people or the police! It was a shame and I would be embarrassed if I hosted anyone there to my home city and it acted like that. I couldnt beleive the atmoshphere, as if they were all entitled and they had something to prove. I guess they feel like MEN when in large numbers.
USA does have 320 million people which is about 11 times that of Canada. We had about 10,000 murders last year. I wonder if Canada had 800 or so?
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
So lack of religion is the cause? Please explain...
Also, even if you look per capita figures, America is streets ahead in terms of death by firearms, care to explain that one to a godless heathen like myself?
but I thought you couldn't compare the cultures?
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
generalize much?
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
Well it looks like Canada has about 1/11th of the crime that the USA does, so how could you or anyone else from Canada, criticize the USA? Also do you have gun ownership? if not, how can you have murders?
A man that stands for nothing....will fall for anything!
All people need to do more on every level!
Geez man. Get out from your cave.
2010 data:
Canada 170 shooting homicides.
USA 8,775 shooting homicides.
* This is actually 1.9% of the crime the USA does... not 1/11th (9%).
Taking into account the differing population numbers... we see the following homicide by firearm rate:
Canada with a rate of 0.51 per 100,000 people.
US with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people.
"Since the introduction of stricter gun laws in 1991, there has been a 65 per cent reduction in homicides by long guns, Statistics Canada data shows. The reduction in homicides involving any type of firearm was 37 per cent."
Hmmmm. Interesting. Hmmmm. Hey... the best news? Our government hasn't gone all tyrannical and such. Go figure.
Source for quote:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... mbers.html
Oh yeah... no tanks either.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
Win-win.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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