Aristides

So far this year 131 people have died in mass shootings in the US and guns are the leading cause of death among children and teens

In 2022, the five countries that executed the most people were, in descending order, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United States.[8]

No we don't but we do need to make life actually mean life for 1st degree murder, particularly for multiple killings. Maintain the death penalty in both law and practice Abolished in practice (no execution in over 10 years and under a moratorium) Abolished in law, except in exceptional circumstances, such as war Completely abolished

You just can't shed your wild west, good guy, bad guy mindset. FFS grow up, your country is almost 250 years old.

Except the US had an assault weapons ban for 20 years and that never happened. Bush 2 refused to renew it and the rest is history.

What's the problem then, you get all sweaty about abortions but aren't willing to do anything to prevent live children from being murdered. There really is no such thing as a gun free zone in the US.

But you have no problem with doing nothing about kids being killed in their schools after they are born. Hypocrite. People in other countries have firearms but the US is the only one that regularly has school massacres.

Not mine, I don’t live in the US. I’m talking about the kids who you force to go to school under those conditions. It’s estimated that during their school lives, U S students will go through about 70 active shooter drills.

The fear your kids feel is of no consequence.

No, it’s on you and this id*otic notion that more guns make you free.

Because it is. Fear is not freedom. Turning your schools into fortresses and believing you have to arm teachers is not freedom. Especially for your kids.

So?

What is really perverted is thinking dead school kids are an acceptable cost of freedom. Fearing for the lives of your children every time they go to school is the opposite of being free.

Where you never know if your kid is going to come home from school alive. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/georgia-apalachee-school-shooting-live-updates-rcna169579

I agree that our climate and size will mean our emissions will be higher than average but that is no excuse to do nothing. Human caused climate change is real, there is so much evidence that one has to be intentionally ignorant not to acknowledge it. How we deal with it will always be a subject of debate but doing nothing to at least slow it down while we figure out how will be disastrous and we can do a lot to reduce emissions without destroying the economy.

It does matter who is the highest per capita emitter. You can't preach to others what you are unwilling to do yourself. As the populations of other countries strive to imitate our lifestyle, our standard of life will decline anyway. The global pie is only so big and we either accept a smaller piece of destroy the place by demanding more than it can give.

If we are among the highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gasses, we can't criticize the people of countries like China and India for wanting the same standard of living as us. So we ban sales of coal to China to make ourselves feel better but still buy their goods after they import coal from someone else to make them. Blackbird says we should be selling them coal and other resources so they can make them instead of making them ourselves. Never mind the emissions involved in shipping those resources across the Pacific and then shipping the finished goods back.

The OP's first post maintains exactly that. Whether a carbon tax is necessary or will have a desired effect is debatable (I'm not convinced) but human caused change is not. People who point at China as the major cause of climate change also want to buy their cheap products (including EV's) manufactured with power generated by coal burning plants while at the same time selling them the coal to burn. Our consumer lifestyle doesn't just impact our own emissions.

Look for Chinese companies to start manufacturing in Mexico where they will be protected under NAFTA.

People want cheap stuff made by people who work for little under poor conditions, then complain when all their manufacturing moves to those countries.

Anyone who thinks 8 billion humans consuming renewable resources at 1.5 times faster than the planet’s capacity to replace them and dumping all kinds of crap into the environment (eg. Great Pacific Garbage Patch) isn’t changing that environment, needs a reality check.

Does anyone really think judges should or could be experts on everything they have to rule on?

The stars have aligned for the provincial Conservatives with the Liberal's botched name change, dissatisfaction with Eby and the current popularity of the federal Conservatives. It may end up putting them in government but they will have to move closer to the centre if they want to form multiple governments. That process could be helped with more former Liberals in the party.

If the Greens get wiped out (which seems likely) there can't be a minority if there are only two parties with seats.