Re: Ove Interest?

On 2/17/2025 6:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 2/17/2025 3:59 PM, zen cycle wrote:

On 2/17/2025 3:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 2/17/2025 2:20 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/17/2025 11:43 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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Opportunity is certainly seems to have a effect, on the whole places with
restrictions on weapons have less use of them, it’s certainly not a hard
concept to understand or equally can see it around the world.

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:-)  "Places with restrictions on weapons have less use of them" is _very_ hard for some people to understand!
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This said your neighbours to the North who seem to have very broadly
similar set in terms of general set up, seem to do much less killing of
each other so unlikely Frank I’m unconvinced it’s the whole thing, clearly
if one has less access but unless I’m mistaken the Canadian have guns maybe
not as many but guns are about but they don’t have the levels of gun
violence that the US does.

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Canadians average about 37 guns per 100 citizens. Americans average about 120 guns per 100 citizens. And Canada restricts gun types. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Firearms_regulation_in_Canada
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Yes, some people in both nations are hunters, farmers, etc. with rational and practical reasons for owning guns. Some are target shooting hobbyists. But the U.S. dominates in the number of people who are so afraid that they feel they _must_ have a gun for "protection."
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Despite the paucity of guns intended for "protection," Canadians don't seem to suffer from hordes of bad guys beating down front doors of homes. And I've not read of Canadian bike path users suffering from vicious attacks - although I suppose anything is possible!
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Not only Canada vs US for numbers.
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Speaking of cultural differences, Wisconsin has about average (among US States) firearms regulation with 6 million humans and about 315 firearm homicides per year.
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City of Chicago, with among the most restrictive regulation in the country (even yet, in defiance of a specific Supreme Court ruling) is 2,665,000 people and suffers 550~650 firearm homicides per year.
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Haven't you been paying attention Andrew? SCOTUS has no relevance anymore.

 Not since the "I have a pen and a phone" moment.
Things rolled along from there:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJEjIkbX8T8
(two minutes)
 

gee, perhaps you missed the "new path consistent with todays ruling" moment - of course you did. Perhaps you missed the part where the ruling was against the policy based on a certain aspect of the law and he's working within the law to push it forward.....of course you did. And perhaps you've forgotten that trump pushed his muslim ban three times to get it past court rulings until it fit within the law....or maybe you're just choosing to ignore that as inconvenient to your narrative.
Meanwhile, this is what you voted for:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/trump-uses-oval-office-to-hasten-major-golf-merger-and-further-enrich-his-family-report/ar-AA1zeZjz?ocid
"The Trump family is a LIV Golf business partner. The family has repeatedly hosted LIV tournaments at its golf venues, including one planned in April at the Trump National Doral in Miami for the fourth year in a row."
Perfect! Only a month into his administration, with the problems this nation is facing, trump instead focuses on a merger between fucking golf leagues.
and
"Not long before Mr. Trump took office, his family started to sell its own cryptocurrency token....just as Mr. Trump was preparing to sign an executive order directing his administration to draft new cryptocurrency regulations easing oversight of the industry."
gee, let me create a business, then deregulate all controls over it. That's in the nations best interests, right?
Do we even need to go into the raiding of the financial controls of the government by musk?
And then of course we have the complete abdication of the GOP in congress:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-isn-t-intended-as-satire-columnist-attacks-gop-over-latest-sycophantic-grovel/ar-AA1zei4U?ocid
"New legislation put forth by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday is just the latest in a one-upmanship competition"
This followed:
"Tenney’s bill comes on the heels of a bill intended to carve Trump’s face into Mount Rushmore, which came on the heels of another measure to allow Trump to seek a third term. There are also pending bills to rename Dulles Airport after Trump"
I'm seeing strong parallels here to another democratic election which turned into a personality cult in less than 6 years less than a century ago.
You got grifted...scammed...unless this is what you wanted.
Is this what you wanted?