Bryan

It's not a right, regardless of what a piece of paper might say. It can be, will be, and regularly IS 'infringed.'

It snows a LOT where I live. We've got a lot of bridges too, one of the newer ones is a similar design to the Port Mann (cables coming down off of a giant phallus). I've never seen a bridge closed due to snow, and I've never seen falling ice hitting cars. Competent designers take these things into account in a northern climate.

All the more reason to put much stricter controls on access to those guns.

Of course. Despite the large numbers that do go to the US, the ones that don't are still substantial in number. Might even be a majority.

Definitely not, I had already heard that episode before the media started reporting it.

He was facing jail anyway for manslaughter. The judge was giving him an option to avoid it if that's what he chose.

McGregor and Maher again? No thanks. Everything they've said so far is a lie, no reason to believe that they'll start telling the truth now.

Jesus was and is, absolutely. He's the son of GOD, judgement is his job.

He's not forcing the kid though. He's giving him an alternative. The kid is perfectly free to refuse the church and go to jail instead.

140 words is not that much for a trained dog. Any dog I've had knew more than 100 for sure. How smart do you think THESE dogs must be? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/05/video-.html

Absolutely. If there is real evidence that electoral fraud was actually committed on a national scale, that changes things a lot.

People who do things like this can't be fixed. The biggest obstacle to coming to ANY solution is we have people on both sides of the spectrum insisting that these things continue to happen. The right wants those types of guns to still be available, and the left doesn't want the mentally ill locked up.

None of those things make you a christian. If they are marrying unrepentant homosexuals, they're not a christian church.

It makes ME yawn because it's a load of fiction. Your rants are just nonsensical as cybercoma's.

If I were to bluntly state what Vancouver's exact issue is, I'd probably be accused of being a racist.

Just because you're not offended, doesn't mean others aren't. That's kind of how it works. The offender is seldom the one who is offended by whatever action or remark they make. The "Gay Jesus" meme is offensive to Christians for far more reasons than that though. It's a deliberate provocation claiming that Jesus was a hypocrite. Offending people is it's sole purpose.

Has the leader of any other political party in Canada ever increased his support in 5 consecutive elections? I'd say he's one of the strongest. Besides that, it's how much he's doing that lefties are opposed to that makes him so polarizing. Again, unliked perhaps, but a sign of strength in his leadership. What are the words lefties use to describe him? Authoritarian? Not characteristics of weakness, that's for sure.

This conversation always devolves into polarized bickering. While the extremes may not solve the issue, the bottom line is this shooting was done with legally obtained and licensed firearms, as is the case in the vast majority of such incidents. Something has to be done to make sure that people like Adam Lanza and James Holmes do not have access to firearms, and you probably will have to infringe somebody's rights to do it.

Is that a threat?

None that can do math. It's far cheaper to bypass the US altogether. All inclusive packages are often cheaper than the flight alone.

I'll drive to the US occasionally, but I won't fly there anymore. It's not the citizens with guns that bothers me, it's the TSA. There are other warm places to go in the winter that are far less of a hassle to go to. We don't get searched or scanned when we go to Cuba, it's far more relaxed across the board.

That's still free market. When you can't get what you need locally, you import it.

These are not binary choices. You don't settle for doing nothing just because you can't do everything. Bombers don't buy pre-made bombs, they have to make them. This alone makes them less of an opportunity to mentally ill people to just grab and use.

Talk about missing the big picture. The lack of access to a much more deadly weapon saved those Chinese children's lives. Contrasting those two incidents illustrates exactly why guns need to be severely restricted.

So no then.