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independent male. state won't let me register that way, though. had to pick a Fisher Price My First Political Party[sup]TM[/sup] to vote in the primaries. i registered as a Demodumb because the Republicrazy party in my state keeps doing annoying bull****.
 
Fearandloathing said:
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Americans arm themselves against their neighbors, Canadian arm police and look after their neighbors. Don't need guns, throughout history Canada's crime rate has been a mere fraction of the US and is now on a downward slide, while US crime continues to soar upward.
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Well we just have bad genes down here.

England did not expatriate any of her felons to penal colonies in Canada.

Canada was too cold.

Georgia was just right.
 
Helix said:
independent male. state won't let me register that way, though. had to pick a Fisher Price My First Political Party[sup]TM[/sup] to vote in the primaries. i registered as a Demodumb because the Republicrazy party in my state keeps doing annoying bull****.
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I'm glad I can vote for Trump -- twice !!!
 
Riveroaks said:
That's the definition of "Independent Female" Luvbug.

That's a cute dog you've got there.

I'll be he/she slobbers all over you.
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Daily shower ritual
 
Riveroaks said:
Down here we call that Democrat.

The Dem's are usually pro social safety net.

Some of them like Diane Feinstein are very sick traumatized puppies though.
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Well, I'm liberal, not progressive. Up here, people you call far-left or progressive or socialist vote for the NDP (New Democratic Party). Three parties makes things interesting sometimes and makes for pretty clear distinctions.
 
I was a cradle Democrat, politically active and organizing, born into a highly political neighborhood in a large northern Democratic stronghold city.

It is no exaggeration to say: "I knew my precinct captain before some of my uncles from the other side of the city"!

He lived across the street from us, never let a week go by without some interaction, and we had our neighborhood meetings in my Mom's closed beautyshop at night in the two-flat we owned, living above it - so he was in my earliest memories. He put me to work doing precinct work at 10 y.o. It was an extremely tight neighborhood & precinct. Very tight! And we stuck together like a a clan (we *were* a clan - an ethnic clan!), and we exerted our political will by voting as a bloc. We got a lot of favors. This was in the 60's/70's/early 80's.

Eventually as the old neighborhood had huge demographic & economic change (it became a slum!), I left it and hit the 'burbs, ending-up buying a house in a great neighborhood that's a Republican stronghold. Yin & Yang, I guess!

I still am a registered Dem (old habits die hard), though I vote all over the map, from Reagan (1st term) to Clinton, and I consider myself an unencumbered independent. I'm no longer politically active.

The Dems left me behind politically and demographically, and I abhor the GOP, so I'm a man without a boat. I miss the old school Dems & GOP that I could better relate to.

My suburb has an awesome quality of life, but is politically boring! So I spend my time here! :thumbs:
 
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There's no voter registration where I am from.
 
Fearandloathing said:
No

Americans arm themselves against their neighbors, Canadian arm police and look after their neighbors. Don't need guns, throughout history Canada's crime rate has been a mere fraction of the US and is now on a downward slide, while US crime continues to soar upward.
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not true.

our violent crime is on decline. so is Canada's.

Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours, even when your gun laws were far more lenient.

I'm not interested in telling you how to do things in your country, just don't knock us based on assumptions.
 
Chomsky said:
I was a cradle Democrat, politically active and organizing, born into a highly political neighborhood in a large northern Democratic stronghold city.

It is no exaggeration to say: "I knew my precinct captain before some of my uncles from the other side of the city"!

He lived across the street from us, never let a week go by without some interaction, and we had our neighborhood meetings in my Mom's closed beautyshop at night in the two-flat we owned, living above it - so he was in my earliest memories. He put me to work doing precinct work at 10 y.o. It was an extremely tight neighborhood & precinct. Very tight! And we stuck together like a a clan (we *were* a clan - an ethnic clan!), and we exerted our political will by voting as a bloc. We got a lot of favors. This was in the 60's/70's/early 80's.

Eventually as the old neighborhood had huge demographic & economic change (it became a slum!), I left it and hit the 'burbs, ending-up buying a house in a great neighborhood that's a Republican stronghold. Yin & Yang, I guess!

I still am a registered Dem (old habits die hard), though I vote all over the map, from Reagan (1st term) to Clinton, and I consider myself an unencumbered independent. I'm no longer politically active.

The Dems left me behind politically and demographically, and I abhor the GOP, so I'm a man without a boat. I miss the old school Dems & GOP that I could better relate to.

My suburb has an awesome quality of life, but is politically boring! So I spend my time here! :thumbs:
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That's about it, you can use the term "blue dog democrat" to describe me.

The democrats I like are people like my current State Senator, who are economically liberal and socially conservative. pro union, pro-government investment, and not against guns or religion.

it's getting harder to find such people to support, and they're non existent at a national level.
 
Registered Reoublican.

However vote for either party. Like the choice of Hillary and Donald. Could support either.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
not true.

our violent crime is on decline. so is Canada's.

Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours, even when your gun laws were far more lenient.

I'm not interested in telling you how to do things in your country, just don't knock us based on assumptions.
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"Hey, I took my info from this very site:

he rise in crime attributable to the anti-police #BlackLivesMatter movement sponsored by George Soros money could be the sleeper issue of the 2016 election. Dubbed the “Ferguson effect” over the outrage ginned up by the death of a criminal who was falsely said to have had his hands up when he was shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who, in fact, was facing a life-threatening situation as the thug attempted to grab is firearm, the rise in crime has been substantial and widespread.
This has progressives very worried, and they are pulling out all the stops, harnessing the organs of elite opinion in an effort to deny that the Ferguson effect is genuine. Fortunately, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute is America’s great truth-teller on crime, a fearless and brilliant scholar of the issue. She writes in the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/law-and-order/243295-left-trying-hide-rise-violent-crime.html


"Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours"

You are mistaken. Canada's crime rate, based on 10,000 population has always been lower than the US
 
zyzygy said:
That would imply another political affiliation in the USA. :)
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It would imply no such thing. You could simply not vote since you wish to keep your political lean (and location?) undisclosed.
 
Fearandloathing said:
"Hey, I took my info from this very site:

he rise in crime attributable to the anti-police #BlackLivesMatter movement sponsored by George Soros money could be the sleeper issue of the 2016 election. Dubbed the “Ferguson effect” over the outrage ginned up by the death of a criminal who was falsely said to have had his hands up when he was shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who, in fact, was facing a life-threatening situation as the thug attempted to grab is firearm, the rise in crime has been substantial and widespread.
This has progressives very worried, and they are pulling out all the stops, harnessing the organs of elite opinion in an effort to deny that the Ferguson effect is genuine. Fortunately, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute is America’s great truth-teller on crime, a fearless and brilliant scholar of the issue. She writes in the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/law-and-order/243295-left-trying-hide-rise-violent-crime.html
I'm not buying the argument in that thread. and it's irrelevant because any so called "ferguson effect" if 100% real would only represent a short term trend. we'd have to see increases continue for years to be able to state "crime is going up" the trend since the early 90s has been definitely down.


"Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours"

You are mistaken. Canada's crime rate, based on 10,000 population has always been lower than the US
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That's what I said, I don't know what you're arguing.
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EMNofSeattle said:
Fearandloathing said:
"Hey, I took my info from this very site:

he rise in crime attributable to the anti-police #BlackLivesMatter movement sponsored by George Soros money could be the sleeper issue of the 2016 election. Dubbed the “Ferguson effect” over the outrage ginned up by the death of a criminal who was falsely said to have had his hands up when he was shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who, in fact, was facing a life-threatening situation as the thug attempted to grab is firearm, the rise in crime has been substantial and widespread.
This has progressives very worried, and they are pulling out all the stops, harnessing the organs of elite opinion in an effort to deny that the Ferguson effect is genuine. Fortunately, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute is America’s great truth-teller on crime, a fearless and brilliant scholar of the issue. She writes in the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/law-and-order/243295-left-trying-hide-rise-violent-crime.html
I'm not buying the argument in that thread. and it's irrelevant because any so called "ferguson effect" if 100% real would only represent a short term trend. we'd have to see increases continue for years to be able to state "crime is going up" the trend since the early 90s has been definitely down.




That's what I said, I don't know what you're arguing.
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Take it up with the guy who posted it and quit baiting me. You know how it works, if you have information showing something is wrong, post it. Until then Amigo, it's truth.

You have a nice day.......we are way done here
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EMNofSeattle said:
not true.

our violent crime is on decline. so is Canada's.

Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours, even when your gun laws were far more lenient.

I'm not interested in telling you how to do things in your country, just don't knock us based on assumptions.
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Violent crime has indeed been in decline for years, but there's been an uptick this year: The Ferguson Effect. Police are inhibited; criminals are emboldened.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
not true.

our violent crime is on decline. so is Canada's.

Canada's crime has always been a fraction of ours, even when your gun laws were far more lenient.

I'm not interested in telling you how to do things in your country, just don't knock us based on assumptions.
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That's something that's easily forgotten. That, and the fact that there's plenty of guns in areas of Canada. Here, for example- there's about 700 households on the island where I live and I don't know of a house that doesn't contain a rifle, even if only a .22 for coon control. Granted, there's lots of households without guns, just that I don't know them.
Two different societies, can't be compared. In Canada, for example, the hot spots for murder rates are rural.
 
Grand Mal said:
That's something that's easily forgotten. That, and the fact that there's plenty of guns in areas of Canada. Here, for example- there's about 700 households on the island where I live and I don't know of a house that doesn't contain a rifle, even if only a .22 for coon control. Granted, there's lots of households without guns, just that I don't know them.
Two different societies, can't be compared. In Canada, for example, the hot spots for murder rates are rural.
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Grand Mal said:
That's something that's easily forgotten. That, and the fact that there's plenty of guns in areas of Canada. Here, for example- there's about 700 households on the island where I live and I don't know of a house that doesn't contain a rifle, even if only a .22 for coon control. Granted, there's lots of households without guns, just that I don't know them.
Two different societies, can't be compared. In Canada, for example, the hot spots for murder rates are rural.
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Strait of Georgia? little island it must be.

Canada has a lot of firearms, the big difference is, Canadians do not seem to own guns (or at least if they do won't openly say it) for self defence against people. and proportionally many more rifles are owned then pistols.

both trends are opposite in the US.

I think our higher rate of crime comes from social problems and not gun access. Canadians have always had comparatively easy access to firearms. even to this day they're maybe the second most heavily armed English based country after the US. Canadians who want to own evil pistols and AR-15s can own them. I've met many who do. My own view of legally owning guns for self defense (or whatever reason I want, or even no reason at all) is an product of growing up in a culture where that's accepted. I do not expect everyone else from outside the US to understand or to care. All I ask is that someone not believe themselves superior because of it.

Even your rural murder hotspots have crime rates the envy of most any town in the US outside of New England.
 
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Jack Hays said:
Violent crime has indeed been in decline for years, but there's been an uptick this year: The Ferguson Effect. Police are inhibited; criminals are emboldened.
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I agree. I think the dropping of the race card by media and our president is like putting gas on a small fire.
 
I live in an open primary state so I've never registered for anything.
 
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