Yzermandius19

The Kool-Aid drinking Commies also believed in the Domino Theory, which probably played into Ike buying that bullsh*t in the first place. World Socialist Revolution For The Fail, No Monolith For You Commies. Wishful Thinking is a helluva drug.

In light of Shattenkirk signing with the Lightning.....

Trump won more of the Hispanic vote than Romney, the Republicans are actually trending in the right direction on that one. The theory that Trump is driving Hispanics to vote Democrat is simply wishful thinking.

Pork in the districts, MICC knows how to bribe.

Funny how some people maligning the PATROIT ACT would push it if it just went after law abiding gun owners instead of targeting terrorist and drug dealers. Very strange these folks.

There is no solution, there is only reduction, at best, and government policy is not the best way to get there. No country on earth has solved the mass shooter problem, and they aren't going to any time in the foreseeable future. You wish there was a quick easy fix that will make this problem go away with a little tweaking of federal gun control policy, but that's a delusion as shown by every country on earth who tried that and failed to achieve that result. You claim to want the truth, but you can't handle the truth, government regulation isn't the answer, you just wish it was.

You think mass shooters are just going to go away if people just try to solve it? What's next, is poverty going to get solved in this dream world of yours? All crime in general will vanish, if governments just implement the right regulations? Lulz. Government policy ain't going to solve this dude, wrong tool for the wrong job. If government policy is the only tool you have, and you insist on using it despite it's unsuitability to the task, you aren't helping reduce the problem, you're exacerbating it.

False, the areas that are more susceptible to gun violence aren't more susceptible to it because of gun laws from other states being less strict, that is not where most of the gun violence is coming from.

Of course not. But your proposed gun control measures won't reduce them, or reduce the kill count. You are treating a symptom and not the disease, your result will suck accordingly.

America has plenty of gun control already, even if you could have your wish list of new measures you'd like to see implemented be implemented there, America would still have plenty of mass shootings and you would simply want to grab more guns, thinking the only reason your gun control didn't work last time is you didn't go far enough.

States matter, pretending they don't, is to not understand America.

It's a start that is already in place, and it's still not enough, you want to grab more guns.

It will not prevent them from going out and getting a gun illegally, they can still get it whenever they want it. Don't have to be messed up to pursue it.

Background checks are not as effective at catching these shooters before they decide to shoot someone as you think they are, that's how. You put way too much faith in RCMP background checks as the reason from less gun violence in Canada. Even if the criminals started following the laws, the guns that wouldn't be banned are just as lethal, if not more lethal, so that saving isn't saving any lives either.

Right and they could illegally obtain them even if they were banned, so how is banning those weapons going to help? It isn't.

The FBI does more through background checks than the RCMP by several orders of magnitude, you are misinformed. It being done on state level isn't that big of a difference, most of the gun deaths in New York don't come from guns sold in other states with lesser regulations and brought into New York, they come from New York, and a lot of them are illegal sales that would be illegal in any state. Distinction without a difference.

I guess gun control restrictions don't actually make Canada any safer than America, despite the claims of Eskimo Communists to the contrary, who knew?

Well I am not a fan of the police state when it comes to infringing on the fourth or second amendments. Some of the anti-gun lefties around here might be cool with using the police state to restrict the second amendment rights of Americans, but I'm not.

Gun control in every country is farcical, acting like the Canadian version is some big impediment to a future attempted murderer trying to acquire a gun than it is in America, that is simply wishful thinking by Canadians who are scared of scary looking guns. Wishful thinking is a helluva drug.

New posters who don't understand that citations never change anyone's mind, they simply result in cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias that leads to discussions of little benefit to the person using citations, or the person ignoring or dismissing those citations. Most people around here don't argue in good faith, and most people on other forums don't either, pretending this place is on some pedestal where reasoned discourse is the norm and everyone is above that around here is laughable. Y'all must have invented a fantasy forum in your head and are projecting unto this forum misguidedly, welcome to the internet, noobs.

If I provide a cite, you'd ignore or dismiss the cite and simply move the goalposts, doubling down on confirmation bias. This ain't my first rodeo.

The claim ain't baseless, you simply choose to not believe it, because you want to remain under the mistaken impression that it's so much harder to get a gun in Canada, which is an actually baseless assumption.

What laws do you think Canada has that make it so much more difficult to buy a gun? Because I'm not seeing it.

Simply compare and contrast the laws, they aren't that different, what kind of cite are you looking for?

It's not that much easier to get a gun in New York than it is in Ontario, anyone who told you otherwise is misinformed or flat out lying.