tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1729645191341545082..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Malignancy Devouring AmericaThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27626851372963975222017-10-05T17:26:09.941-07:002017-10-05T17:26:09.941-07:00I don't think we're smug about guns, Anyon...<br />I don't think we're smug about guns, Anyong. I belong to the local sportsman's club and use the rifle range for target and skeet shooting. The guns most of us use would be familiar to our fathers and grandfathers. There are a lot of bolt action and lever action rifles. They're the hunting rifles that give the best accuracy.<br /><br />The American experience is different - more semi-automatics, more assault rifles. It's this "black rifle" M-16/AR-15 fetish that I find particularly worrisome. They claim they're hunting rifles but they're not. They're designed for close combat, humans shooting humans. The popular AK-47 is even less accurate. The shooters who shoot competitively, for accuracy, use long barreled, single shot, bolt action rifles of the sort you're more likely to see at a Canadian rifle range.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49154066978557446872017-10-05T13:35:56.766-07:002017-10-05T13:35:56.766-07:00Anyong.....YWAS Canadians are smug when it comes t...Anyong.....YWAS Canadians are smug when it comes to guns. Every one and their dogs own guns in Alberta.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-64267689776061812782017-10-04T21:12:50.855-07:002017-10-04T21:12:50.855-07:00Re;
Canadians are smug regarding guns....
We hav...Re;<br /> Canadians are smug regarding guns....<br /><br />We have problems but nothing compared to the USA.<br />Within the USA , gun violence is a huge issue .<br />However; if you add in USA violence internationally we reach epic numbers!!!<br /><br />Let's face it the USA is a violent nation.<br /><br />TB<br /><br />Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065775238162848249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28074088560119786072017-10-03T15:06:00.538-07:002017-10-03T15:06:00.538-07:00Anyong.....I suggest listening to the "Ideas...Anyong.....I suggest listening to the "Ideas" program on CBC from last evening. Canadians are smug regarding guns....but there are four factions lobbying all the time in Canada to own guns that are made to mow people down. By the way...NRA the American version, was adopted by Americans from Canada way back when.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35621370514699536712017-10-03T11:13:02.590-07:002017-10-03T11:13:02.590-07:00Mound, it certainly is grotesque. Now consider tha...Mound, it certainly is grotesque. Now consider that there are two bills expected to be signed into law that would deregulate silencers, ostensibly to save the hearing of hunters. Note the names of these bills: the Hearing Protection Act of 2017, and the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (the SHARE Act). Hearing protection and sharing, what could be more mom and apple pie?<br /><br />If Paddock had been using silencers, I wonder how long he would have been able to continue his killing spree. Some in the crowd would see people dropping but wouldn't know why. The concert would likely go on as the performers wouldn't know what was happening in the crowd. Police would be unable to use sound to figure out where the shots were coming from and the elevated position would make the shooter very hard to spot.<br /><br />Yet these silencer bills seem to be getting no pushback from police. Very strange.<br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42324107207923712592017-10-03T08:17:56.574-07:002017-10-03T08:17:56.574-07:00LALI, several times I've argued that, when it ...<br />LALI, several times I've argued that, when it comes to climate change in the States, we'll wind up with most of the essential assets while the hillbillies will have all the guns.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-37320796584835942432017-10-03T08:16:23.937-07:002017-10-03T08:16:23.937-07:00Cap, when you include the carnage of the Civil War...<br />Cap, when you include the carnage of the Civil War in that, it goes get one's attention. It's grotesque, isn't it? The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38125211765681386812017-10-03T08:13:41.748-07:002017-10-03T08:13:41.748-07:00lungta, that was gratuitously crude and, I expect,...lungta, that was gratuitously crude and, I expect, to some who might read it, offensive. You can do better than that.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-21923089159511168782017-10-03T07:09:17.787-07:002017-10-03T07:09:17.787-07:00Of course we agreed with them on their false notio...Of course we agreed with them on their false notion of 'American Exceptionalism'. Of course, we all said "yes, you're Number One!"--they have guns to our heads, 24/7/365. Their exceptionalism was born of immigration.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27790282213808556682017-10-03T06:37:42.383-07:002017-10-03T06:37:42.383-07:00Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all ...<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jan/18/mark-shields/pbs-commentator-mark-shields-says-more-killed-guns/" rel="nofollow">Number of Americans killed</a> on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733<br /><br />Killed by firearms in the US since 1968: 1,516,863<br /><br />In other words, a US soldier is 9% more likely to die from gunfire at home than from any source of death on the battlefield. The Pentagon should use that in its recruiting brochures.<br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84797872497375855172017-10-03T00:10:16.606-07:002017-10-03T00:10:16.606-07:00well
if America is really the whore of Babylon
th...well <br />if America is really the whore of Babylon<br />then Canada is pretty much just a petty coat for the bitch<br />we will go down as hard as the Americans <br />and with no relief from .....who russia?.. china?<br />bend the knee?<br />the canadian flag is more visually indicative of an used tampon for lady liberty<br />than anything like "canadian"<br />our "forces" are already integrated <br />money talks and we are they , they are we<br />.....no one internationally can tell us apartlungtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526204597913219959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6891198854355740602017-10-02T18:53:55.478-07:002017-10-02T18:53:55.478-07:00I suppose that, like me, you know plenty of Canadi...<br />I suppose that, like me, you know plenty of Canadians who, since Trump was elected, now choose not to visit the US any longer. I'm in their ranks. That's not easy given that the sole survivor of my "Gang of Five" friends is American and it's a pretty small world since the others were prematurely felled - leukemia, melanoma, brain cancer and, the fourth, by his own hand. Yet I'll have to cut my ties to America because I don't believe the place they're in can be redeemed. As a democracy I think they're done. I have great sympathy for the many Americans who haven't succumbed to this contagion but I can't see that they have the ability to fix it either.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-59755469184155620272017-10-02T17:52:43.354-07:002017-10-02T17:52:43.354-07:00Time to close our hearts and minds to the senseles...Time to close our hearts and minds to the senseless USA.<br />A nation in decline intent upon taking everyone with them to the bottom.<br /><br />I listened to right wing USA radio, today, anticipating the rebuttal of gun toting Republicans to any responsibility to yesterday's event or on any other gun fight at the OK corral.<br /><br />First up was Rush Limbaugh to actually gave time to a phone in caller from Tennessee that suggested that.<br />Country music fans are generally from the South West USA.<br />Those from the South West USA are ,generally, Republican!<br />Hence the gunman was a Democrat taking his frustration out of Republicans.<br /><br />In the afternoon; Lars Larsen, a well known gun promoter, spent considerable time discussing the differences between semi automatic and fully automatic guns and that more gun control would achieve nothing; this from a man that promotes concealed carry of fire arms.<br /><br />The USA is a nation in denial.<br /><br />It is time to stop making excuses for them.<br /><br /><br />Those in power in the USA; worship the flag, the cross and guns, but worship nothing more than money..<br /><br />TBTrailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08065775238162848249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-17012037817145011502017-10-02T16:00:09.395-07:002017-10-02T16:00:09.395-07:00Sad.
But neither shocked nor surprised. We know...Sad. <br />But neither shocked nor surprised. We know that nothing will change regarding the bizarre American addiction to guns. NRA types may invent false flag narratives like they did for Sandy Hook and the good ole' folks will just buy more guns 'to protect themselves'. Business as usual. <br /><br />Now, hoping the best for Tom Petty ....<br /> <br />Well, I won't back down<br />No, I won't back down<br />You can stand me up at the gates of hell<br />But I won't back down Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.com