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Stewart

Trad climber

Courtenay, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2015 - 02:00pm PT

madbolter: I guess that mail order degree of your in analytical philosophy qualifies as authority to inform us that there is absolutely no point whatsoever in attempting to fix what's so obviously broken regarding with the U.S. obsession with firearms. Such deep insights.

It's certainly clear that money is being spent in buckets to improve the lot of the downtrodden, so I guess that's why places like Flint and Detroit are such vibrant, prosperous cities.

You ARE aware, aren't you that a philosophy degree is generally considered the punch line for any joke referring to a waste of academic time? Now I finally understand.

Did they ever explain to you during your classes that there's a way to use philosophy to justify pretty well anything?

And I sure feel terrible about beating up on the poor helpless 1%ers. Of course they should be entitled to keep all the money they have stolen from lesser beings.

Far better people than you fought and died to make the U.S. a peaceful, prosperous nation for all Americans, and you dishonour their sacrifices.

wilbeer

Mountain climber

Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,

Jun 25, 2015 - 04:23pm PT

How about the Pharmacy.

We can spread the responsibility far enough from the gun industry somehow.

HS.

LOL.

Way to stand up,Stewart.

One should visit some of Canada before slamming the place.
They are doing something right there.
To diverse for most here in the US,One big reason why.

Stewart

Trad climber

Courtenay, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2015 - 06:05pm PT

Trad Hog: Missed your post. I figure on my worst day I've got twice as many functioning brain cells as you have had operating during the best 24 hour period of your life. Come to think of it, I figure the average Canadian tree stump has more smarts.

The above comments are not intended to slag the citizens of the U.S. in general. Many of the Americans on this forum have enough intelligence to agree that gun violence is a plague upon all that is good and decent in their nation, and something most urgently should be done about it.

That also makes them smarter than you, Trad Pig, er Hog - or at the very least, more honourable representatives of the human race.

madbolter1

Big Wall climber

Denver, CO

Jun 25, 2015 - 07:04pm PT

Ahh, I see that "Stewy" is doing "his" best to get this thread frozen.

That's the "honorable" thing to do.

madbolter1

Big Wall climber

Denver, CO

Jun 25, 2015 - 07:08pm PT

They are doing something right there.

I lived there for years and still know quite a few good folks there. But comparing Canada to the USA is, well, pretty irrelevant.

Big land mass with very few people.

Parliamentary political system based on GB (unless you're talking about Quebec, which really doesn't think it's "Canada").

Not even resembling a world power and with exactly zero aspirations toward being one.

How they cope with their "problems" up there isn't gonna tell us a whole lot, eh?

Stewart

Trad climber

Courtenay, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2015 - 08:22pm PT

Cosmiccragsman: Well, maybe that's a place to start.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Jun 25, 2015 - 09:00pm PT

Civilized countries all over the world have far less gun violence than we have. With strict licensing laws. With VERY strict laws on which kinds of guns can be in the hands of anyone, including peace officers. With restrictions even on which peace officers are trained and licensed to carry on duty. And with a culture that doesn't glorify guns.
Surely, these countries aren't free of civil strife and violent crime. But the outcomes are FAR different. Very very few people are killed by peace officers in UK, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, etc.
And yes, the police are entirely capable of shooting to kill when necessary.

The answers are out there.