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Originally Posted by jayswin
Semantics man, I remember you saying you were born in Canada, but I considered living there for 15 years as being a part of America, and your attitude is exactly representative of too many Americans when it comes to gun control.
You just nailed it in your own post. The bolded is exactly what Canadian RESIDENTS get frustrated with coming from American RESIDENTS.  |
It's not that I'm anti-gun control (I'm not), I just put mass shootings in that same category as terrorist attacks, shark attacks, and plane crashes as things that get too much attention and generate way too much fear when they have such an insignificant chance of happening. Putting in policy for a country of 300 million based on something that impacts what about 100 lives a year at most, is not always a good idea.
I'd be more inclined to move from my apathetic stance if the talk was about policies designed to address more common acts of violence such as poor people dying at the hands of other poor people and domestic violence.