Gun control discussion

[catlady1945]

I think it snows there.

[Karen]

I think it snows there.

Where?

[Catty1]

Canada. Or, as some Brits say, "Canader". It does snow here - usually in the winter.

Some recent shootings (and non-shootings) in Canada:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07...n_1687933.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...-shooting.html

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/26...iving-magnotta

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Un...968/story.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...r-charges.html


I may have missed one or two. It's been quite a summer...

[RICHARD]

I woke up from a dream with a cramp in my calf - I was going hunting and someone in the group fell on the back of my leg. Funny because I haven't been hunting in a while and don't own a livestock.

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I hate waking up and feeling I have to write because sometimes it's visceral and I am pretty crabby.

I just want to say that we are a stupid, arrogant bunch of people when it comes to 'gun control'.

Oh, my! people are carrying concealed weapons on the street!

So what.

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I thought of our poor Isabel, Husky Mom, and wondered what SHE THINKS ABOUT GC.

Of course, Mexico is a place that is slowly becoming the Wild West when it comes to guns, stupid people and OUR IDEAS about GC.

We can whine and moan about it because we don't live in constant fear of some one breaking down the door to our home and killing us because of their stupidity.

And if we constantly live with that fear? Hide your head black plastic bag and make sure it's closed up tight so you don't see, heard, smell or taste the problems we have with guns.

Or better yet, go live in Mexico or some African country where guns are the law.

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Take a look farther up the food chain and see what OUR Country, the prez and that AH Eric Holder think about Operation Fast and Furious.

That shows we really can 'contol our guns'.

I apologize for making light of the subject, but we are a brash, ignorant and stupid group.

Think about just being able to discuss GC here and on this forum.

In most of the world that discussion start at the tip of the bullet and ends at the wound it leaves.

I am sure we would be singing a different story anywhere else on the planet - it's amazing how hollow the arguement sounds when you read it out loud here on this board.

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My comment about Canader was a little poke at just how little we know about what goes on outside our borders.

Sometimes a short look outside of our own 'selves' puts things into perspective and can really temper the conversation.

It's our arrogance that keeps us from seeing that 'our way' may not be as bad as we think it is, compared to the rest of the world.

Suck it up folks, things could be worse?