Ok.... you've had your say....that's enough. Go play somewhere else like a good little girl.
Canadian gun rights.
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Ok.... you've had your say....that's enough. Go play somewhere else like a good little girl.
Good points. Switzerland is a very good example, especially since it avoids cheap counter-accusations that you're just a copycat of the US way.;-)
Okay....fair enough.
Total crimes statistics - countries compared - NationMaster
USA....11.9 million crimes
Canada.....2.5 million crimes.
As the USA has ten times the population......that means Canada has twice the crime rate the USA does.
I think it's a balanced mix. It's why he's wrong so often. What's so funny to me is that he seems to take pride in annoying people. That's not terribly harmful, but it is pathological.
Yeah...it kinda does work out....
Anna is correct....culture is the key.
Gun control is useless.
I actually like the Swiss model to a degree.
It has some flaws of course in that a citizen-army is not as effective as a professional army when fighting beyond its borders, and Switzerland's professional army for the most part consists of teachers to teach the citizen-army.
That said, it's likely among the most effective defensive forces in the world, at only about 2.5% of GDP, so it's an efficient and cost-effective one too.
It has some flaws of course in that a citizen-army is not as effective as a professional army when fighting beyond its borders, and Switzerland's professional army for the most part consists of teachers to teach the citizen-army.
That said, it's likely among the most effective defensive forces in the world, at only about 2.5% of GDP, so it's an efficient and cost-effective one too.
"When have you been patient with me, YJ? And again, why are you speaking in code words, like diversity? Why not say what is on your mind, that you think that USA has high crime rate because it has too many blacks and too many Hispanics?"
Once again, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a skill I learned as an immigrant, whose second language is English, (and you so often and so gleefully emphasize and repeat) let me go over it for you.
If I haven't been patient with you, maybe it is because you have always been less than patient, even condescening, patronizing and intolerant, not only with me but with anyone and EVERYONE who have or ever had the unmitigated nerve to disagree with you.
The word "DIVERSITY" is the most often used, and most favourite word of liberals like you, BUT only when it suits your arguments. You have the nerve to accuse me of using "code words"? How about you using "REDNECK", "EXTREMIST", and all the other words you are so free and liberal to use?
I DID speak my mind. I asked you to look at the statistics. I asked you to compare the number of perpartators and victims. Only in the mind of a racist hypocrite can that be construed as racist or anything else liberal racists bandy about.
Did I have any reference to the number of blacks or Hispanics? Or was uit just your imagination? Weighed down with a gigantic chip on your shoulder?
Once again, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a skill I learned as an immigrant, whose second language is English, (and you so often and so gleefully emphasize and repeat) let me go over it for you.
If I haven't been patient with you, maybe it is because you have always been less than patient, even condescening, patronizing and intolerant, not only with me but with anyone and EVERYONE who have or ever had the unmitigated nerve to disagree with you.
The word "DIVERSITY" is the most often used, and most favourite word of liberals like you, BUT only when it suits your arguments. You have the nerve to accuse me of using "code words"? How about you using "REDNECK", "EXTREMIST", and all the other words you are so free and liberal to use?
I DID speak my mind. I asked you to look at the statistics. I asked you to compare the number of perpartators and victims. Only in the mind of a racist hypocrite can that be construed as racist or anything else liberal racists bandy about.
Did I have any reference to the number of blacks or Hispanics? Or was uit just your imagination? Weighed down with a gigantic chip on your shoulder?
Yeah...it kinda does work out....
Anna is correct....culture is the key.
Gun control is useless.
I wouldn't say useless, but I think it may have gone overboard. Clearly if you're buying an automatic rifle or an anti-tank weapon and say it's for hunting purposes, it might raise a few eyebrows, and rightfully so, unless you could argue your case for such a weapon for hunting purposes.
Bad aim?:lol:
O.....MY....GAWD..... can you be anymore misleading or wrong Colpy? From your own stats page....click on the per capita tag..... us has 80 per 1000 and Canada has 75 per 1000.
Come on, I KNOW you can do better than this.
And your point????
Doesn't seem to slow the concentration of power in the PMO's office in Canada......and please DON'T assume I am advocating manning the barricades just yet........
BTW, "fearful" is not a word people usually use to describe me. I am not "fear-mongering", I am simply trying to defend an ancient individual right that has existed for good reason since we came out of the trees......the right to have power, to be independent, the right to the tools of force, the tools of self-defense, the right to keep arms. The knowledge that you can not be coerced by any power on earth with impunity. It, as Thomas Jefferson indicated, leaves one with a completely different mind set.
Then of course the argument is strengthened by attacks on my race. Now there's a well thought out strategy...:roll:
Besides the fact that not many people have either
1. not enough resources (too far away to bother, not enough hardware, not enough manpower, etc.)
2. that every man, woman, kid, dog, cat, cow, and gerbil would be pointing a firearm back at you if you wanted to do a nasty on Switzerland.
3. it rains too much there
Um, btw, folks, Nationmasters stats need more frequent updating. Some of them go back almost 10 years.
INTERESTING!!!! No, I hadn't clicked the "per capita".........there is a flaw somewhere! Somebody can't do math, and mine is good.....hmmmm....
Back to the drawing board.
But you're right. for a defensive army, the Swiss model is highly effective. Transform a country into a wasp nest, and few will dare venture in.
No....RPG's for bunnies just saves all that bothersome cleaning process......and it is still fun.