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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
I never take anything personally, Eric. I have relatives in Canada. Cousins in BC and cousins, plus a 90 year old aunt, in Ontario. Oddly, those in the lefty East are very much in my way of thinking - including auntie, who has plenty of moxy left, believe me.
Assault weapons, my you know what! A definition, please. We can't buy them here legally. Only the criminals manage to get their hands on those. You really must learn to distinguish between law-abiding citizens and felons. See my post to Remedi above.
Detroit....gang central. And let us not forget the drug trafficking. Ditto any major metropolis.
Any idiot who goes postal on the highway and pulls a gun belongs in jail......for a very long time.
Punish the guilty, not the innocent.
Some crimes are so beyond the Pale, they deserve the death penalty. I'm with Steeljack on this one.
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Before I start to disagree with evrthg you say
I do hope that your relatives enjoy living in the great white north. I particularly envy your cousins in BC (we often call it British California). I hope that your aunt is happy in Ontario, where, if she should need medical care, she will get the best in the world at no cost. I had to get that one in.
I really have no idea where the "lefty east" is. In Ontario we have a liberal govt. Ontario liberals are like Northern Democrats. But the
Conservatives (like Northern Republicans) are very strong.
I am surprised at the cavalier way you dismiss your major cities ... some of them anyway ... have you given up on them? Is it ok that drive by shootings, 1000's of homeless sleeping on the streets are features of the major metropolitan areas of the richest and most powerful country in the world? Canada's largest city (Toronto) is the fifth largest in North America (Mexico City is the largest) yet, tho' it has some of the problems of large urban centres, it is clean and safe.
The idiot who pulls the gun on the highway must have access to that gun in the first place.
The question of punishing the guilty is not at issue. What is, is the element of revenge in capital punishment, not to mention the fact that innocent men and women may die on the scaffold or in the chair. The State must not exact revenge. Revenge is passionate, highly charged and very personal.
Anyway, it is a beautiful evening, the open road calls, so I will hop onto my motorcycle and go blow some of the cobwebs out of my mind.