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I can't agree with you about having eight months of winter in the GTA. And it has little to do with this debate anyways, so your opinions about it have nothing to do with keeping the debate intellectually honest. In fact, I'm a little confused by your post and the reasons for it - Canada's weather has nothing to do with this debate, so why would an offhand comment about it that you happen to disagree with have anything to do with the intellectual honesty of a debate about an American criminal trial?
I wasn't the one who brought up the weather, PDW was.
As far as not having 8 months of winter in Canada.... Are you seriously trying to imply October through April should be considered Canada's 'growing season'? Leaves fall off the trees in Southern Ontario in October and begin to bud again in April, and any Canadian who gardens knows planting anything before June 1st in Southern Ontario risks killing it with frost. While that may not accurately define "winter" by the calendar on your wall, it certainly defines winter from an agricultural viewpoint.
I wasn't the one who brought up the weather, PDW was.
As far as not having 8 months of winter in Canada.... Are you seriously trying to imply October through April should be considered Canada's 'growing season'? Leaves fall off the trees in Southern Ontario in October and begin to bud again in April, and any Canadian who gardens knows planting anything before June 1st in Southern Ontario risks killing it with frost. While that may not accurately define "winter" by the calendar on your wall, it certainly defines winter from an agricultural viewpoint.
Just because it's not a growing season doesn't make it winter. Nowadays, I think we only get two-to-three months of actual winter, where temperatures are regularly below zero and there is occasional snow. Even still, I bought a snow blower three winters ago and have had recourse to use it less than ten times in the past three winters. Any other time we got snow, it was an inch or two that could be cleared much quicker with a shovel, or was too wet (due to temps at or above freezing) to snowblow properly.
If that's the typical Canadian's take away point from all this (and I doubt it) that doesn't say much for Canadian intelligence.
So to demonstrate your own intelligence you'll give the Canadian perspective from an American living in Brooklyn,
Yeah ok.
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Originally Posted by jambo101 Seems to me if you get in a fight down there (USA)you can kill your opponent with no legal accountability.
Maybe i should have been more specific and applied that attitude solely to the 25 states that have the Stand Your Ground Law,
Along with a 2nd amendment that gives every one the right to carry a gun and with 300 million guns floating around and 12000 people being shot dead every year, maybe you can understand the context in which the statement was meant from a "Canadian perspective".
Just because it's not a growing season doesn't make it winter. Nowadays, I think we only get two-to-three months of actual winter, where temperatures are regularly below zero and there is occasional snow. Even still, I bought a snow blower three winters ago and have had recourse to use it less than ten times in the past three winters. Any other time we got snow, it was an inch or two that could be cleared much quicker with a shovel, or was too wet (due to temps at or above freezing) to snowblow properly.
The "winter" comment was used in the context of growing agriculture, not in regards to how much snow may or may not have fallen in the last calendar year. Regardless, we didn't experience comfortable patio weather this year until June. The winter was cold and the spring was late, and I had to use my ATV several times to plow my driveway because of the higher than average snowfall.
As such, I'm not exactly sure where your "2-3 month" winter comes from. Just because the calendar says 21 March is the first day of Spring doesn't mean it's time to put on your tank top and shorts and open the pool.
Maybe i should have been more specific and applied that attitude solely to the 25 states that have the Stand Your Ground Law?
Why should you even bring it up in the context of Zimmerman's case? Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law contained no provision that was invoked by Zimmerman's defense team that subsequently led to his acquittal, but alas, the "Canadian perspective" (as if it bears relevance anyway) could never possibly omit anti-Second Amendment proselytizing, could it?
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Along with a 2nd amendment that gives every one the right to carry a gun and with 300 million guns floating around and 12000 people being shot dead every year, maybe you can understand the context in which the statement was meant from a "Canadian perspective".
Hmm, what am I supposed to do with this? I've run out of cordial ways to respond to crap of this particular variety (if you couldn't have guessed), so, being that this is a heavily moderated forum and all, I'll close by wishing my Canadian, erm, "neighbour" a beautiful day. Truly.
Doesn't seem to stop all the Canadians fleeing your frozen wasteland in the winter to spend time in the sun in Florida does it.
Nor does it stop all your friends from moving north from the sweltering arrid deserts of the scrub mid-west into the cottages they have bought or inherited on the cool pristine lakes up here.
See how those goofy descriptions can work both ways?
Why should you even bring it up in the context of Zimmerman's case? Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law contained no provision that was invoked by Zimmerman's defense team that subsequently led to his acquittal, but alas, the "Canadian perspective" (as if it bears relevance anyway) could never possibly omit anti-Second Amendment proselytizing, could it?
Hmm, what am I supposed to do with this? I've run out of cordial ways to respond to crap of this particular variety (if you couldn't have guessed), so, being that this is a heavily moderated forum and all, I'll close by wishing my Canadian, erm, "neighbour" a beautiful day. Truly.
And yet again another American who doesnt get the concept "from a Canadian perspective"
And again another American who doesnt get the concept "from a Canadian perspective"
No, I think I do get it, Jambo.
You've explicitly injected the issues of guns, crime and the Second Amendment into the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case, and I'm incorrect to consider it perspective (Canadian or otherwise)? Please, humor me...
Why should you even bring it up in the context of Zimmerman's case? Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law contained no provision that was invoked by Zimmerman's defense team that subsequently led to his acquittal, but alas, the "Canadian perspective" (as if it bears relevance anyway) could never possibly omit anti-Second Amendment proselytizing, could it?
Hmm, what am I supposed to do with this? I've run out of cordial ways to respond to crap of this particular variety (if you couldn't have guessed), so, being that this is a heavily moderated forum and all, I'll close by wishing my Canadian, erm, "neighbour" a beautiful day. Truly.
And again another American who doesnt get the concept "from a Canadian perspective" The whole case was based on Zimmermans right to invoke the Stand your ground law as without it he;d be in jail today.
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The case centered around whether Zimmerman acted in self defense and drew national attention to Florida's law, which allows people to defend themselves with force if they feel threatened in their home, business, car, or a place where they "have a legal right to be.
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