Good point. For starters, I wonder if years rather than months would help curb simple possession. (No, I'm not saying that Canada has that. But it should.) My principal point is that "more of the same" doesn't seem to be working in the aggregate. You guys are not making headway. I understand the very real need to protect yourself and your loved ones, but look at your country and the direction it is taking. The status quo is presently a slow downward spiral. How do you propose to get your country back on track where it deserves to be? And I'm only talking about the beloved gun culture, where the cure just happens to be the poison. (Or is it the poison that is also the cure? I can never be sure.)
The cause of crime in the U.S. isn't the "beloved gun culture". It's Blacks and Mexicans. An American white is no more violent than a Canadian or Australian white. I doubt very many murderers in America are card carrying members of the NRA. If America wants to rid itself of crime all it needs do is ban blacks and Mexicans. That notion is considered obscene but it's no more obscene than taking away a constitutional right in order to accommodate criminals. Rather than take away guns from law abiding American's how about executing ipso facto anyone convicted of murder? How about mandatory life for any crime involving a gun? How about treating Mexican's who commit gun crimes as enemy combatants? The Left would freak out at the perceived injustice but they have zero problem with squashing one of man's basic rights, the right to self defense.
I live in Houston so perhaps I can shed some light on this debate, LOL.... A reporter once asked the District Attorney about the high rate of executions from Harris County (Houston) and what kind of message that was sending to the world? Answer: Don't commit murder in Harris County... I grew up with guns...still have few...pretty good shot... First, why is a NON- citizen allowed to buy a gun anyway? I would be in favor of very strong education before you can get a permit for a concealed weapon...take a month for the background check...etc etc....no fully automatic weapons allowed, at all.... You sell a gun to a unauthorized person...bamm...go to jail....no exceptions.... I don't know what the statistics are when broken down regarding spousal killings, gang related, robberies, fights between two people who know search other....all different situations that "gun control" would not address... Lady here in town found her hubby screwing around....ran over him with her new Mercedes....TWICE.... Military: An old law dating from the Civil War prevents the US Military from being used without the Governor of a State REQUESTING the troops....that was the problem of Katrina, Gov would not allow Fed troops into Louisiana.... SteveD
Oh, I'd say that there are FAR more positive stories to tell. But you tell me, how would they appeal to a news outlet? And you show your ignorance by saying that we have a 'rampant gun culture'. I NEVER assume that someone has a gun, no matter where I go. It just shows, again, that you are nothing but a gullible borrego when you believe that nonsense....
C'mon Nik, you're a better troll than that...... Reread my statement, and then read my statement to Tdog explaining his error in assuming the same point as you are doing... Then get back to me with an apology for trying to twist my statement.
I see... so T-Dog and I read your hysterics and then both arrived at the same mistaken conclusion, right? Everyone misquoted you, identically. I expected better of you. I tried to make my point without resorting to name calling, but apparently, that was beyond you. Dangerously Z-like in your response here, Haroki. I've seen you at your best, and this isn't it. Are you really like Z, in the sense that you post your opinions here without the desire to hear what others have to say about them? Are you like Z - never ever wrong?
English 101 for Nik. See crib notes inside paras... So yes, it appears that both you and Tdog are incorrect. Whatsa matta, you Canucks got an inferiority complex about our superior American culture/media/economy??????
Haroki, it appears to me that you are so saturated in it that you don't even recognize it anymore because it's part of who you are. You have become desensitized. I wish you well.
And you know you're right about our 'rampant gun culture' becaaaaaaause? .....................? You saw it on tv, right? LMAO !!
That's an extreme statement, and you know it. So if it's not one extreme then it's the other, right? Compared to many other first world countries, I think you will agree that the US is a study in extremes. However, I don't think it was this attribute that has led it to its historic achievements. Rather, I think that this attribute is a stain on its otherwise impressive history. Consider a trader who has had a great run and then becomes insufferably arrogant, complacent and self-satisfied. It wasn't those attributes that got him there. Those are the ones that will take him down.