letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Maybe Canada should outlaw Basketball.

Angmo

Take note you mentioned “FREE WORLD”

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

We should not be teaching any religion in public schools, if we don't allow prayer.

However, learning about other cultures is a very good thing for kids to be exposed to.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

Dennis, you have said so many things here that are not true for the Liberals that I know...granted I don't know every one of them.

IMHO, it is Conservatives who fail to see differences in people.
We have i*****l i*******ts who are bad guys so all immigrants are bad guys.

Conservatives seem to want everyone to be like them.
They, a gross generalization, don't want to listen to differing opinions.
Yes, there are Liberals who are like this as well.
Just look in the Attic and you can see both sides being very "unaccepting" every day.

Liberals arguments are to get guns out of the hands of crazy people who are likely to shoot up a bunch of innocent people.
One way to do that is to limit the number of guns out there.
Not a great idea, but we need to keep working on how to prevent crazy people from shooting up schools etc.
Do you not agree with this?

It's not that Liberals don't see differences....we see them in a different way than Conservatives.

To try to quite Thomas Friedman...."Liberals think the government is the solution to all our problems and Conservatives think the government is the cause of all our problems.
The problem is that neither is 100% correct.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

Because he is a human being who brings a different perspective that you don't want to hear.

It's not about Canada cleaning up their mess before they can talk about us....what nonsense.

This is MY problem with how people "argue" here.

I'm smart and you're stupid.
You have no right.

Are you always so darned sure that YOUR idea is the ONLY/BEST one?

To paraphrase Dewitt Jones....don't stop with the first right answer.

(My words) Someone may have a better answer you hadn't considered.

Angmo

Lefties lack in knowledge of conservatives. The post above proves that.

WNYShooter Loc: WNY

I don't know any Conservatives who think I*****l I*******ts are the same as legal ones. On the other hand, I do know more than a few Libs who work extremely hard to blur the line between the two groups and then pull the Ol' straw man argument........kinda like you just did in this statement.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

OMG... a sore loser! Remember that basketball was invented by a Canadian, and hockey originated in Canada. You are welcome.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

And you have no idea how much I want that to remain the situation; hence my concern for where you are headed.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Those stats do not refute the point that the US is unique in its gun laws.

But should you believe that your laws put you in a better position, why is the US doing worse than Canada in both charts? Why is it that the US — with the best/right approach to gun laws — is NOT at the bottom of the list?

So, thanks for the evidence that supports my position!!

btbg

I agree. When I was in school everybody had a rifle or shotgun in their gun rack in unlocked pickups. Teachers and students alike. We used to go out and look at other people's guns in the parking lot when someone got a new one. Teachers and students alike.

There was no problem. Then they started changing the rules and two years ago a kid at school here went hunting before first period and brought his gun to school in the trunk of his car. After school he threw his backpack in the trunk and someone saw the gun and turned him in.

Kicked out of school and charged with a felony when all he was doing was going hunting.

And like you said no gun laws just invite people to target those locations.

EyeSawYou

It's too bad that Canadians are only good at very few things, hockey is one of them...not much else. The Montreal Canadians and Toronto Maple Leafs won more NHL Stanley Cups than any team in the Cups history, they just haven't been able to win very much the past couple of decades. Of course it's probably more due to being outnumbered than being sk**lful, Canadians are very sk**lful hockey players.

btbg

Actually we aren't. Switzerland has a higher rate of gun ownership than the United States. And if you actually look at the gun death statistics in the U.S. 60 percent are suicides, so should not be part of the discussion since they would just commit a suicide some other way. 34 percent more are gang violence and there would be gang violence with or without guns. The problem there is enforcement of current laws. Felons aren't allowed to own guns so if that one law was enforced it would end a lot of problems.

And fewer guns does not stop violence. They had two k**led and two more shot in Toronto while the Raptors were having their victory celebration and in case you don't know they have much more strict gun laws than the U.S.

Last year both France and Great Britain had mass murders using trucks. What the gun control advocates don't get is that if someone wants to k**l people they will k**l people. We need to address mental health issues and we need to do a better job of catching terrorists of all kinds before they actually act. We do not need to alter the second amendment.

btbg

Kind if telling isn't it since many of those countries that are ahead of the U.S. have strict gun control.

btbg

Actually I think that is easy to answer. The vast majority of gun violence takes place in inner cities. The U.S. has far more people in inner cities and far more people total. If you look at the gun violence charts the majority of countries with high homicide stats are either very unstable countries or countries with a high percentage of urban poor.

Poverty has a lot more to do with gun violence than the gun laws. And by the way most of the U.S. gun homicides take place in cities that have extremely strict gun control laws, while the low homicide portions of the U.S. tend to have high rates of legal gun ownership.