...as Western civilization slips towards darkness. Every great civilization comes to an end, eventually.
Multiple dead after shooting at Quebec City mosque
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...as Western civilization slips towards darkness. Every great civilization comes to an end, eventually.
I can't think of anything much more tragic than the 6 deaths in the Quebec mosque, which seems to have pretty well consumed the news today. In British Columbia we are losing on average 4 lives a day from Fentanyl and the like. Is the loss of life here any less tragic?
"Is the loss of life here any less tragic?"
Addiction can be managed/ controlled. And personal life choices are often involved.
Getting shot in the back when you're praying in Church is infinitely more tragic.
Addiction can be managed/ controlled. And personal life choices are often involved.
Getting shot in the back when you're praying in Church is infinitely more tragic.
You are literally prostrate, on your knees, praying and vulnerable. That is a very different state of being than cutting off the circulation in your own arm with a ligature, finding your own vein and sticking a needle full of garbage into your own vein that you "prepared" beforehand. Shooting Fentanyl is more analagous with playing Russian Roulette. Shooting unarmed people who are down on their knees praying is more analagous to shooting seven year olds in their classroom.
In my car today with pre-teen daughters...
Girl: "Daddy. Why did that bad man shoot those people?'
Me: "Because he was a coward."
Girl: "Will they come to our city and kill us?"
Me: "No. And don't ever be afraid to go out anywhere. Do you know why?"
Girl: "Because that way the coward wins?"
(((SCREEEEEECHHHH!!!))}}}
U-Turn to Dairy Queen!!
Girl: "Daddy. Why did that bad man shoot those people?'
Me: "Because he was a coward."
Girl: "Will they come to our city and kill us?"
Me: "No. And don't ever be afraid to go out anywhere. Do you know why?"
Girl: "Because that way the coward wins?"
(((SCREEEEEECHHHH!!!))}}}
U-Turn to Dairy Queen!!
I really meant nice just as a comparison to the ones with a larger exposure. I will agree that it was insensitive but by no accounts was I laughing at the victims.
If anything, I laugh at these fools who cannot even understand the psychology of terrorism or how to properly frame the scope of those acts.
It's the very reason why imbeciles like GWB lead us into a war that achieved nothing and was completely disproportional to the heinous act itself.
Hopefully we have more people like your daughters who don't cower to these offenders.
Not surprising given Trump's left-wing economic agenda. Seems to me I've said more than a few times that Notley would blush at the size of Trump's deficit. Yet again I'm proven right. Thanks ES.
I don't know. I would expect the government to do little except a few gestures of outreach and speeches in parliament. I certainly wouldn't expect the government to spend billions of dollars on foreign wars and increased domestic surveillance.
Thing is: Mentalfloss is a cut and paste poster who worked Locutus's street corner and noses are out of joint 'cuz they're both a truckload shy of a brick