Why does everyone hate America so much? (safe area, buy)
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Best propaganda I've read in a long while. All completely untrue unfortunately, you rank below the EU in all of these things.
On another note...
I will admit that if we could trim unnecessary military expenditures, political "feel good" projects, and get rid of many tenets of the federal Dept. of Education (which means give control of education, some of which has been federally usurped, back to the localities and states as it used to be), the U.S. would already be on a road to financial improvement. We could pay off some of our massive debt, more adequately fund Social Security and not use it as a piggy bank for political projects, and more aptly finance access to higher education (one of the few good attributes of the current Dept. of Ed.) And even expand Medicare for a hell of a lot of people, which would basically expand access to federal subsidies to access privately-run healthcare. If we ever got our financial affairs in order, I'd be fine with Medicare expansion, and it would be a hell of a lot better than mandating citizens to possess health insurance.
It's our country, our choice except the whole climate chagne/global warming part. That has, well, global impacts so the rest of the world has a right to be angry.
Just curious, why the borderline racist 1st point?
^ see what i meant people...when you immigrate to US make sure you repeat 24/7 that you have black friends and that black women are sexy as hell...otherwise: you might get sued (America has capital punishment) so beware .
In my opinion, a gun is an absolute necessity here in the USA. I live in a town of about 20000 and a few months ago, the local police department warned us about people breaking into homes to steal.
I would say 80% of the crime here is committed by people who "emigrated" here from places like Chicago- vast majority are African American and they bring a type of "inner city" culture and mentality that is totally foreign to most people who were born and raised here.
You better believe I am not going to be the one waking up in the middle of the night in panic because some idiot decided to break into my home. If they ever do, they will be greeted with a 9mm.
^ see what i meant people...when you immigrate to US make sure you repeat 24/7 that you have black friends and that black women are sexy as hell...otherwise: you might get sued (America has capital punishment) so beware .
Delusional much? Never have I ever said that anyone has to think Black Women are sexy as hell. You're seriously just making stuff up just to incite an argument. The tone of that remark, as well as this one that I'm responding to are the reasons you come across as racist. Had you said something similar about Latinos, whites or Asians, I would have accused you of the same thing regardless. Quite frankly, I don't care who immigrants decide to like or don't like. My issue is with people like you.
why shouldn't i be allowed to have a firearm in my home even in an extremely safe area? Crime happens anyway. The need for self-protection can therefore arise anywhere. I don't even own a firearm. in fact, i've lived in orange county, a suburban region of 3.2 million people in the shadows of los angeles, with my doors unlocked at night time and again because i felt safe and wasn't paranoid. i just defend the right of people who choose to for purposes of self-protection or hunting for food (not for people who use them just to harm people or animals maliciously).
And "well-regulated"? Do some research. Our founding fathers called for well-trained men (and, to extend it to today's terms, women) who could wisely and judiciously use firearms. That's why i call for mandated firearms training for people who choose to own firearms. Apparently in parts of canada and most of the rest of the world, "judiciously" means "almost not at all," but i digress...
not sure what you're saying here. Are saying that " well regulated militia " is not in the 2nd amendment, even though you yourself posted those words in your point 1 of post #309? Also let's not forget the text of your 2nd amendment.
"a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
so explain to me how a homeowner owning a handgun to shoot intruders is somehow in a militia??
our country is set apart from the rest of the industrialized world in terms of its crime rates because of our socially ill urban areas. That is a proliferation of the urban culture that has evolved in our country since the 1960s. Guns are not the effect of that; people who use guns for bad means are. I don't know why canadians, brits, french, dutch, italians, japanese, etc. By and large can't seem to understand that. Also keep in mind that the population of just our top two metropolitan regions combined, nyc and l.a., exceed that of all of canada. Either greater n.y.c. Or greater l.a. Has a population greater than the netherlands. Nyc proper has more residents than denmark or norway. The u.s. Is one country without a predominant ethnicity or common heritage, unlike other industrialized countries. While canada is like the u.s. In this regard, people up there are closer to being "on the same page" politically, meaning that there isn't as large of a disparity between liberals and conservatives as in the u.s., meaning canadians are more on board with having stricter gun laws than their southern neighbors. Anyway, in short, america and even its regions is too large and too complex to simplify.
inner cities exist in the uk as well and some suburbs of paris are downright scary. They have less gun deaths.
Canadians are on board with our gun laws because they are not new. They've always been fairly strict and canadians see the good results of having stricter gun control.
You also are leaving out the amount of accidental deaths by guns, which is vastly greater percentage wise than canada, france, uk, australia etc.
i can see easier accessibility to guns for all as allowing the "bad guys" to buy guns more easily, yes. Many of those guns are also purchased in the black market--illegally! But this also makes it easier for "good guys" to purchase guns, and firearms in general, more easily--and legally. Tradeoffs, mi amigo. And even if we seriously heightened our gun restrictions nationwide, what will stop "bad guys" from purchasing firearms, or other weapons of their choosing, in the black market? That's right...nothing will stop them!
look at mexico, venezuela, and honduras. These are countries with gun control laws as strict if not stricter than what is typically found even in the e.u. Would you feel safe in many parts of juarez, caracas, or san pedro sula? Hell no you wouldn't. On the other hand, in new york, los angeles and boston, crime rates have gone way down since the 1980s to the point where you typically don't need a gun in most parts of those cities, and those cities in essence have veritable gun control. It's typically about the "healthiness" of a society of people, and those cities have invested billions of dollars in reinventing neighborhoods and increasing the sizes of their police forces.
On the other hand, at least in our dangerous cities--detroit, oakland, houston, for example--there are provisions for self-defense, regardless of use of firearms in so doing. Crime unfortunately has been high for many years in det and oak, but has started to come down in hou. At any rate, none of these cities consistently reflect national tends. One national trend, for example: We have actually expanded accessibility to guns in most states in the u.s. Since the late 1980s because of the admitted war zones that many of our cities became during the crack era. The result? A 50% reduction in violent crime nationwide. So in some areas where even the inner cities aren't so "healthy," the gun is the neutralizer, or at least more so than in the past, also a healthy national trend. Look up fbi crime stats if you don't believe me, by the way.
violent crime is going down in most countries including canada, in some instance quite dramatically and it's not because these countries are getting more guns. It's the ageing of our populations.
my ultimate point: Having a society where the value of human life is paramount is the best deterrent to crime. I fully agree with that premise. But exercising a constitutional right to protect yourself only paramounts that freedom to live in peace. And screw the fact that we're in 2014, not the time of the musket.
i see this as a contradiction and simply untrue. If more guns meant more peace, the us would the safest place in the western world. I still stand by my musket comment. It is absurd not to reexamine an amendment that was made in regards to a technology that has changed so dramatically over the years. Simply absurd.
and see there, folks... Even though i don't like fox news, to quote their slogan, i'm "fair and balanced." america is far from perfect, but i sincerely believe we got the right to bear arms correct.
As far as the American Second Amendment (individuals can own firearms) is concerned, we have King George III to thank for that.
A firearm is just a tool, and some of us like to keep and use them. They can also be a form of insurance, just like the house or automobile insurance most of us carry.
Delusional much? Never have I ever said that anyone has to think Black Women are sexy as hell. You're seriously just making stuff up just to incite an argument. The tone of that remark, as well as this one that I'm responding to are the reasons you come across as racist. Had you said something similar about Latinos, whites or Asians, I would have accused you of the same thing regardless. Quite frankly, I don't care who immigrants decide to like or don't like. My issue is with people like you.
Delusional much? Never have I ever said that anyone has to think Black Women are sexy as hell. You're seriously just making stuff up just to incite an argument. The tone of that remark, as well as this one that I'm responding to are the reasons you come across as racist. Had you said something similar about Latinos, whites or Asians, I would have accused you of the same thing regardless. Quite frankly, I don't care who immigrants decide to like or don't like. My issue is with people like you.
didn't read, don't have spare time to waste, nor energy to argue...sorry.
didn't read, don't have spare time to waste, nor energy to argue...sorry.
Then don't respond genius!
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