Why do Americans consider Canada to be a left wing country?

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30 May 2020, 11:42 pm

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what all this gun talk fails to mention, is how people feel about actually SHOOTING and injuring/maiming/killing another sentient being. not like smashing a bug [except for some sociopaths], but extinguishing or severely interfering with somebody else's life. people take that responsibility far too lightly in my book. a person with a gun should absolutely DREAD having to use it on somebody else. a lot of the gun people i see are the opposite, they seem to relish the opportunity to ventilate somebody.


Killing someone is illegal; having a gun is perfectly legal. So, logically, the use of gun is something other than human. As far as what exactly, I am not sure: thats what I was wondering about myself. The reason I want a gun is simply because people on the right make a huge deal out of it, so it means that if I don't have it it makes me inferior. So I want to have it for the sake of having it so that I can say I am not inferior. I have no idea what to do with it though.



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30 May 2020, 11:48 pm

QFT wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what all this gun talk fails to mention, is how people feel about actually SHOOTING and injuring/maiming/killing another sentient being. not like smashing a bug [except for some sociopaths], but extinguishing or severely interfering with somebody else's life. people take that responsibility far too lightly in my book. a person with a gun should absolutely DREAD having to use it on somebody else. a lot of the gun people i see are the opposite, they seem to relish the opportunity to ventilate somebody.


Killing someone is illegal; having a gun is perfectly legal. So, logically, the use of gun is something other than human. As far as what exactly, I am not sure: thats what I was wondering about myself. The reason I want a gun is simply because people on the right make a huge deal out of it, so it means that if I don't have it it makes me inferior. So I want to have it for the sake of having it so that I can say I am not inferior. I have no idea what to do with it though.


Why not go bigger and acquire thermonuclear weapons because why should you be inferior to a state? It would make it far easier to negotiate as an equal.


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31 May 2020, 12:11 am

funeralxempire wrote:
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auntblabby wrote:
what all this gun talk fails to mention, is how people feel about actually SHOOTING and injuring/maiming/killing another sentient being. not like smashing a bug [except for some sociopaths], but extinguishing or severely interfering with somebody else's life. people take that responsibility far too lightly in my book. a person with a gun should absolutely DREAD having to use it on somebody else. a lot of the gun people i see are the opposite, they seem to relish the opportunity to ventilate somebody.


Killing someone is illegal; having a gun is perfectly legal. So, logically, the use of gun is something other than human. As far as what exactly, I am not sure: thats what I was wondering about myself. The reason I want a gun is simply because people on the right make a huge deal out of it, so it means that if I don't have it it makes me inferior. So I want to have it for the sake of having it so that I can say I am not inferior. I have no idea what to do with it though.


Why not go bigger and acquire thermonuclear weapons because why should you be inferior to a state? It would make it far easier to negotiate as an equal.


Since everyone else is also inferior to the state I don't have to take it personally. But being inferior to fellow citizens is personal.



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31 May 2020, 12:30 am

QFT wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
QFT wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what all this gun talk fails to mention, is how people feel about actually SHOOTING and injuring/maiming/killing another sentient being. not like smashing a bug [except for some sociopaths], but extinguishing or severely interfering with somebody else's life. people take that responsibility far too lightly in my book. a person with a gun should absolutely DREAD having to use it on somebody else. a lot of the gun people i see are the opposite, they seem to relish the opportunity to ventilate somebody.


Killing someone is illegal; having a gun is perfectly legal. So, logically, the use of gun is something other than human. As far as what exactly, I am not sure: thats what I was wondering about myself. The reason I want a gun is simply because people on the right make a huge deal out of it, so it means that if I don't have it it makes me inferior. So I want to have it for the sake of having it so that I can say I am not inferior. I have no idea what to do with it though.


Why not go bigger and acquire thermonuclear weapons because why should you be inferior to a state? It would make it far easier to negotiate as an equal.


Since everyone else is also inferior to the state I don't have to take it personally. But being inferior to fellow citizens is personal.

to borrow from eleanor roosevelt, you're only inferior if you LET THEM MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR.



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06 Jun 2020, 10:49 pm

Well it seems that when I talk to American's especially when it comes to my fiction writing to get opinions also, it seems a lot of them are either far left or far right, with not a lot of in the middle. Is this right, or perhaps there is a lot of middle?



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07 Jun 2020, 4:06 am

there is a broad middle here but the extremes get all the press as well as do most of the voting.



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07 Jun 2020, 6:01 am

QFT wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what all this gun talk fails to mention, is how people feel about actually SHOOTING and injuring/maiming/killing another sentient being. not like smashing a bug [except for some sociopaths], but extinguishing or severely interfering with somebody else's life. people take that responsibility far too lightly in my book. a person with a gun should absolutely DREAD having to use it on somebody else. a lot of the gun people i see are the opposite, they seem to relish the opportunity to ventilate somebody.


Killing someone is illegal; having a gun is perfectly legal. So, logically, the use of gun is something other than human. As far as what exactly, I am not sure: thats what I was wondering about myself. The reason I want a gun is simply because people on the right make a huge deal out of it, so it means that if I don't have it it makes me inferior. So I want to have it for the sake of having it so that I can say I am not inferior. I have no idea what to do with it though.


Well...if its a long gun you could use it as a vaping device to smoke tobacco, or whatever else is legal to smoke your jurisdiction.

If its a pistol then you could use it as a paperweight. :lol: