Good point. Our gun homicide rate is the terrible price we pay for being unconquerable.
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I hope you are not implying that Canada is managing it's economy well.
What's your point?
Oh, right, you hate True Dope. I keep forgetting because you sometimes fail to say it every damn hour.
Different fiscal management on BOTH sides of the border. Pre-Trump also, whom you seem to not be a fan of.
What's not to love?
Canada;s situation is significantly different from the U.S.'s. Something your PM should be ever aware of, when you get an adult in that office.
The rate of homicide regardless of method in the US is 6.3/100,000. Look at it this way. You have 9 times the Canadian population but only 3 times the homicide rate. I mean does it matter the method of murder? Dead is dead.
In a ranking of all 219 countries and territories the US ranks 58th in homicide rates. Besides it's not really the guns that make the US militarily unconquerable, it's the sheer geographical size of it. Same with Canada, Russia and China. You could conceivably occupy part(s) of those countries but a full occupation and control would be a herculean effort.
The 100 million or so gun owners in the US would just make things even more challenging for an armed invasion of the US.
No need for the snark. It's obvious that a country with 350 million+ people and a 6.3/100,000 homicide rate is going to have a much greater total number of homicides than a country 1/9 it's size with a 2/100,000 rate.
Average number of firearm-related homicides in the US in a year- 50,000. Around the same number are killed every year in auto accidents but that doesn't seem to bug anyone very much.
Average number of Americans who die every year from tobacco use- 480,000. Plus an additional 19,000 from second-hand smoke.
500,000 Americans a year die from tobacco. 50,000 a year die because of guns. Just sayin'.
Man, those Ruzzians are funny little fucks. It's almost like they don't understand how war works. And I'm not talking about the propagandist idiots, I'm talking about those in the Party echelon like Medeved (or whatever), Bedpan and the funniest of them all, Peskov the clown.
They can't seem to grasp the basic concept of a defender attacking them back. They call bombing Russian military infrastructure "terrorism" while they sling drones and missiles directly at Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure.
The best belly laugh though is when Peskov the clown insisted that Ruzzia was fighting the war abiding by all rules and laws of the UN Convention on War or whatever it's called. I almost spewed my scrambled eggs all over my monitor screen in laughter.
Recently, Ruzzia busted out their new "secret weapon". Is it a missile? A drone? A super-MLRS? Nope. It's an aircraft. A two-seat, open-cockpit single prop-driven job from which the "passenger" will sprinkle holy water over the battlefield because...well because they're fucked in the head.
They're a lot like the religious super nutters in the US who think God is only on America's side and that the US is God's country. Same thing with these Ruzzian dopes.
In related and still amusing news, little Kim Duk-Dong in the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea accused the US, ROK and Japan of forming a nuclear military organization in Asia. What does he think China, Ruzzia and himself essentially have?
Man, if he gets much fatter he's gonna be the North Korean version of Veruca Salt after she eats the blueberry candy. He's almost as wide as he is tall.
They can't seem to grasp the basic concept of a defender attacking them back. They call bombing Russian military infrastructure "terrorism" while they sling drones and missiles directly at Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure.
The best belly laugh though is when Peskov the clown insisted that Ruzzia was fighting the war abiding by all rules and laws of the UN Convention on War or whatever it's called. I almost spewed my scrambled eggs all over my monitor screen in laughter.
Recently, Ruzzia busted out their new "secret weapon". Is it a missile? A drone? A super-MLRS? Nope. It's an aircraft. A two-seat, open-cockpit single prop-driven job from which the "passenger" will sprinkle holy water over the battlefield because...well because they're fucked in the head.
They're a lot like the religious super nutters in the US who think God is only on America's side and that the US is God's country. Same thing with these Ruzzian dopes.
In related and still amusing news, little Kim Duk-Dong in the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea accused the US, ROK and Japan of forming a nuclear military organization in Asia. What does he think China, Ruzzia and himself essentially have?
Man, if he gets much fatter he's gonna be the North Korean version of Veruca Salt after she eats the blueberry candy. He's almost as wide as he is tall.
You're the one who seems to think that the U.S. having 4-5 times your gun homicide rate is no big deal.
No, not at all. We take virtually no measures whatever to license, insure, or regulate cars and drivers. It's all one big continental game of bumper cars down here. No ruels.
Good point. We should just quit trying to stop gun homicides. No big deal.
And yet traffic fatalities are just as high as firearm-related homicides.
Yeah. What was I thinking? The govt being complicit in the deaths of 500,000 people a year just to make some tax revenues on tobacco is nothing compared to the occasional fruit loop who goes postal.
So should government ban the farming and production of tobacco in a free country ? Should they force all smokers to quit cold turkey ? Or just those without access to a reserve ?
When's the last time you heard the American government complain about firearms?