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I also never mentioned the detachable magazine aspect as I believe I referred to the capacity of those mags NOT their detatchibility. All magazines detach regardless of capacity unless of course you are calling the under-barrel tubes of some shotguns and rifles "magazines".
The tubes found under lever action and pump action firearms are in fact called "tubular magazines" (also found on many pump, bolt or semi-auto 22 rifles) and not all box magazines detach in semi-automatic or manual repeating rifles, some of them pivot without actually detaching from the receiver.
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Do you even remember the topic Saturno? The query as to why Canada has fewer mass shootings.
Exactly..let's talk for once, for a change about some societal reasons why Canada has less mass shooting without talking about guns and gun laws all the time as the only factor....
Exactly..let's talk for once, for a change about some societal reasons why Canada has less mass shooting without talking about guns and gun laws all the time as the only factor....
Ok well shoot..
Please don't say because there are more crazy people in the U.S. That makes NO sense.
Please don't say because there are more crazy people in the U.S. That makes NO sense.
No, society is different....more violent, more individualism, more prone to excesses (good and bad ones), more obsession with success (and the "loser guilt" syndrome), more prone to addiction...the war on drugs (many statistical mass shootings are simply events of gang warfare), sharing a long border with one of the most violent country on the planet (source and/or transit area for these drugs)....there is a lot to talk about.....
I recently learned (I was frankly shocked) that there was a time not that long ago (we are talking up to the 1970s not a century ago) when actually in certain more rural high schools it was normal for students to bring rifles to be locked in the principal room and go hunting/target shooting after school....unimaginable nowadays, a high school today would go on lockdown if you show up with a pellet gun.....guns are the same, society changed....
No, society is different....more violent, more individualism, more obsession with success (and the "loser guilt" syndrome), more prone to addiction...the war on drugs (many statistical mass shootings are simply events of gang warfare), sharing a long border with one of the most violent country on the planet (and source and/or transit for these drugs)....there is a lot to talk about.....
Sounds like you're making a case for much stricter gun control if the US is so " wild " .
Sounds like you're making a case for much stricter gun control if the US is so " wild " .
I make a case for making sure that the wrong people to not get guns (I mentioned my suggestions many times and I'm not happy with the status quo) which is different than curtailing gun rights (which, by the way, even the Supreme Court has ruled they are not "absolute" and reasonable restrictions can be applied)
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I have been many times in both countries, Canada and the USA. The main differences are that americans tend to be constantly on "warning afraid ready to shoot" mode. They tend to live in a daily parano mood. They live being afraid of everybody and everything. It is reinforced by their medias.
In Canada, people are more relaxed, laid back and not so afraid of others. There is also the laws that are a little bit different. To own a gun or rifle, you have to follow a kind of certificate (cours canadien de sécurité sur les armes à feu) with two different levels regarding the kind of weapon you want to buy. In the us, buying a gun is like buying potatoes.
Honestly, from Quebec to BC, canadians are really a pacific nation, not cowards at all, they just tend to have more self control I do think. Canadian cops are acting much more in a friendly way with the population.
Homicide rates are actually lowest in Atlantic Canada (and Quebec), and rise as you move west. They're usually highest on the Prairies and then drop down a bit in BC. But not as low as in the easternmost part of the country.
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