Canada has 1/10 the population of the US, so one would expect such crimes to happen significantly less frequently. I thinks there's a good point to be made that access to free health care, including mental health care, would result in fewer incidents as well, but it certainly wouldn't resolve the problem, as Canada proves.
If you ask me, it's because people are fucking sick and our national culture is a fucking poison
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Why aren't my gun stocks going up????
See, this is what I never really understood. So weaponry that has been actually used to kill a lot of civilians can't be regulated because of a potential civic uprising?
Potential civic uprising is our last trump card against tyranny. And when you have a federal government as huge and powerful as the US Federal government, it becomes more important than ever. Well, technically it's also to provide for defense against invasion but that doesn't seem as likely these days.
I'm no stock wizard, but I might check again after the emotionality calms down a bit and a backlog of orders has built back up, showing the rising demand in a way wall street can document.
Dude, not "mass mass" but school shooting? It absolutely has happened already in Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._Myers_High_School_shooting
this is the most crystal clear example of conservatives not realizing that the world today is completely different than it was in 1776
Seems to me that people keep smacking their heads and saying something about those who do not learn from history are something something.
I agree with you that it is a human issue but if it were purely a human issue would we not see similar results adjusted based on population globally? I don't think we are which is why I believe that there is a cultural aspect as well.
I do remember the Taber shooting... sad case. Thankfully that gym teacher was there. The point I was trying to make though is that the level of violence and preparation in the majority of shootings in Canada seems paltry compared to what has been going on in the USA.
I never meant that for the asshole pranksters. Jail or tons of community service is fine.
The Death Penalty is also ineffective as a deterrant to mass murderers. Not to mention cruel and unusual punishment.
Shot by an off-duty deputy, not a private citizen with a gun.
If this was new york, everybody in the theater would have been dead.
Yup, that proves it. Texans are better shots as a whole than New Yorkers.
You know who has sexual assault on trains as a national pastime?
It's much easier for Japan to be restrictive with firearms when they don't produce them domestically and live on an island. Any gun that enters the country is ether...
If you go by the reported (which is only as accurate as it can be based on reports) sexual assault statistics, the US is way ahead in that area too.
There's a reason why the first half of your post had to be a disclaimer - Japanese culture stigmatizes the victim in these circumstances so that they don't report the assaults when they happen, and when they do, police and prosecutors drag their feet on the matter, further discouraging victims from coming forward.
Priorities are different there, I suppose. When was the last time marijuana used to murder 20+ people at a time? There are worse thing for people to worry about, like the topic we're actually discussing.
Fully automatic weapons have been banned since 1934, the ban was reinforced in 1986. You cannot buy automatic weapons in the US. Semi-automatic is very much a sporting rifle, I use a .22 for hunting squirrels, a 12 gauge shotgun for duck hunting. Semi-auto just means that the chamber pressure is used to load the next round in the chamber but you still have to pull the trigger for each shot.
But it's perfectly legal to buy an add-on that takes 5 minutes to install and make the Semi-Autos into Fully Autos. el oh el
Uh huh.
Ask the Iraqis, Afghans, and Vietnamese....
No, ask the people of the United States. Don't make comparisons of our country to unstable, puppet states. Britain is past its colonizing Empire peak, did it devolve into survival of the fittest state of chaos followed by a dictatorship?
If it is Gas, no, the tyrant in his mind is the government.
A violent coup is highly unlikely in any first world country, though the dismantling of civil liberties and subversion of the political process does not require it, if history serves as a guide. But even so, it is quite hard to envision the populace of the United States rising up in an armed struggle in any case.
In terms of taking and holding ground? A snowball's chance in hell. In terms of attrition through asymmetric warfare? Perhaps, though as I said, that situation is hard to envision.
