School stabbings.

[bush_cheney2004]

I would challenge you to a game, but I can barely skate. It's real violence, though, rest assured of that. Ice T wouldn't be half as tough on the ice as he is on Law & Order SVU.

Sorry, I must have offended the Canadian hockey gladiator ethos....feared by all the world !!

You are the one who used the term "anytime soon" - in the previous post and in this very post. You have eaten your words twice on this thread now - time for a low-word diet for you

No...I was just "sooning" you. Somebody in America will die today from "gun violence"....and we will get up again tomorrow and do it all over again.

[GostHacked]

So let's get this thread back on track shall we? Consider it a challenge.

[Michael Hardner]

So let's get this thread back on track shall we? Consider it a challenge.

Good catch. I was trying to ascertain the relevance of BC's American take - and he has set me straight now.

[GostHacked]

Good catch. I was trying to ascertain the relevance of BC's American take - and he has set me straight now.

Relevance? Check the MO. It's a typical 'Canada' response when we discuss things American.

[Michael Hardner]

Relevance? Check the MO. It's a typical 'Canada' response when we discuss things American.

Yes, that is the perspective we offer on the discussion of violence in America, and the American perspective is what BC provided.

[GostHacked]

Yes, that is the perspective we offer on the discussion of violence in America, and the American perspective is what BC provided.

He has done nothing to provide an American perspective. Instead most of what we get is kicks at Canada.

[Michael Hardner]

He has done nothing to provide an American perspective. Instead most of what we get is kicks at Canada.

I don't see that. The comparison was made already and he added a perspective. People were comparing Canada and the US, and criticizing the US situation before he came on the thread so... but we're drifting here.

[On Guard for Thee]

He has done nothing to provide an American perspective. Instead most of what we get is kicks at Canada.

Probably still smarting after the whippin' we laid on 'em on the ice in Sochi.

[bush_cheney2004]

I don't see that. The comparison was made already and he added a perspective. People were comparing Canada and the US, and criticizing the US situation before he came on the thread so... but we're drifting here.

Agreed, but for some, contrasting and comparing to the U.S. is only permitted on their terms, regardless of the topic area. If I have learned only one thing here, it is that some members presume it to be a given that the United States is the universal donor to any topic, regardless of the forum area. They cannot develop a complete perspective without doing so....perhaps it is in Canadian DNA ?. However, like minded references to Canada are not acceptable to them.

[waldo]

your ever present need to flog your skewed perspective on the Canadian identity makeup is just so wrong, so tedious and so boring. Have you nothing new to add?

[bush_cheney2004]

It's not just here....the CBC storyline for the recent spate of multiple stabbings in Canada invariably gets directed at the gun debate in the United States, just as it happened here. Remarkably...predictable.

[Mighty AC]

If I have learned only one thing here, it is that some members presume it to be a given that the United States is the universal donor to any topic, regardless of the forum area. They cannot develop a complete perspective without doing so....perhaps it is in Canadian DNA ?

It is part of our DNA. The result of living next to the world's richest, best armed and most proud/arrogant/self centered/flamboyant shopping mall. Trudeau Sr. had an apt analogy for it. "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."

It's not just here....the CBC storyline for the recent spate of multiple stabbings in Canada invariably gets directed at the gun debate in the United States, just as it happened here. Remarkably...predictable.

Don't you think this comparison makes sense? Shyte is going to happen anywhere as proven by this documentary about Monks losing their cool. Isn't it logical to comment on the fact that sociopaths do less damage with manual weapons?

Edited April 16, 2014 by Mighty AC

[bush_cheney2004]

Yup...that would explain why there is no thread on recent stabbing attacks in Canada (with fatalities), but an instant highlight on what happened in the United States. Strange....

Edited April 16, 2014 by bush_cheney2004

[GostHacked]

Yup...that would explain why there is no thread on recent stabbing attacks in Canada (with fatalities), but an instant highlight on what happened in the United States. Strange....

You are more than free to start a topic about that.

[WestCoastRunner]

Yup...that would explain why there is no thread on recent stabbing attacks in Canada (with fatalities), but an instant highlight on what happened in the United States. Strange....

I did actually introduce (highlight) a recent stabbing attack in Canada on the first page of this thread.

[bush_cheney2004]

I did actually introduce (highlight) a recent stabbing attack in Canada on the first page of this thread.

Great...partial credit...but surely Canada deserves it own rightful "stabbing attacks" thread, free of 'Merkin influence and gun rights tangents. The Canadian victims deserve no less than the 'Merkins.

[WestCoastRunner]

I suppose there is no thread created because we don't have multiple killings by knives everyday of the year.

[GostHacked]

I did actually introduce (highlight) a recent stabbing attack in Canada on the first page of this thread.

I guess no one reads the OP either. I had included it there.

[bush_cheney2004]

I suppose there is no thread created because we don't have multiple killings by knives everyday of the year.

Neither do the Americans....so ?

[GostHacked]

Great...partial credit...but surely Canada deserves it own rightful "stabbing attacks" thread, free of 'Merkin influence and gun rights tangents. The Canadian victims deserve no less than the 'Merkins.

You are right, someone should make a thread about it. Nothing yet.

[On Guard for Thee]

Americans prefer guns for school killings. Much more effective and just as easy to get.

[waldo]

Unless somebody else had a gun to stop him. Anyways, unless you're going to change the 2nd amendment, your point is moot.

of course, Americans falsely interpreting the intent of that amendment... and using that false interpretation to fuel an agenda, is the crux of their problem. If only those 'framers' had added 5 simple words:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed."

[waldo]

You are right, someone should make a thread about it. Nothing yet.

is there a relative murder-by-weapon comparative numbers measure that suggests when a Canadian thread is needed/appropriate... for knives or guns?

Edited April 17, 2014 by waldo

[bush_cheney2004]

I guess this is a ban guns thread after all....the United States Supreme Court has upheld an American citizen's right to own and carry firearms. What other nationals think about this is completely irrelevant.

[Shady]

of course, Americans falsely interpreting the intent of that amendment... and using that false interpretation to fuel an agenda, is the crux of their problem. If only those 'framers' had added 5 simple words:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed."

Of course. You with your extensive constitutional law background know more about the interpretation of the constitution than any of the supreme court justices over the last 200 years.