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Originally Posted by Eric
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. |
My Ontario relatives hate the winters!
I think the U.S. has the best medical care. I have sampled socialized medicine and found it lacking. Maybe that's why Canadian doctors come down here to work and your citizens often cross the border to get attention. We even get Canadians way down here in the south seeking medical care.
There are few true liberals left. If your Ontario "liberals" are anything like our Norther Democrats - then they are left-wing socialists.
I don't dismiss our major cities. I just don't choose to live in one of them. Those with the worst problems generally seem to have one thing in common. The people in charge are Democrats.
You are too hung up on the gun issue. Fortunately, our law-enforcement people view the law-abiding citizen, (armed or otherwise), as part of the solution rather than the problem. All of these feel good solutions on the banning of guns will not keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. Only the law-abiding will obey the law.
Capital punishment is not revenge, it is justice. No-one wants to send an innocent person to death row and goodness knows it takes long enough to carry out the sentence. Many years, in fact. Plenty of time for appeals, etc., Plus we have DNA now. If a life sentence really meant life, then I think we might reconsider. But it doesn't in all cases. Plenty of examples of people being paroled and going on to kill again. So, take your pick.