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Who are you?

  • Registered Democrat - Male

    Votes: 9 15.3%

  • Registered Democrat - Female

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Registered Republican - Male

    Votes: 10 16.9%

  • Registered Republican - Female

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Independent - Male

    Votes: 23 39.0%

  • Independent - Female

    Votes: 4 6.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 11 18.6%
  • Total voters
    59
EMNofSeattle said:
Strait of Georgia? little island it must be.
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Texada Island. The biggest in the Strait, but little settled. We're north of the Gulf Islands (what you Americans call the San Juan Islands).

EMNofSeattle said:
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.

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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My son has a license for handguns and a buddy here who used to shoot competitively in the Forces has a collection that lots of Americans might envy but, yeah, no-one I know intends them for protection. Gun violence here is either gangster-on-gangster in the city or feuds, disputes, vendettas, etc. in the rural areas. In 2012 the murder rate in BC (province-wide) was 1.54/100,000 but in the Northwest Territories it was 11.53 and 14.84 in Nunavut. Different cultures, even within the same country.
 
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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a one year uptick does not upset a trend. do you empty your 401(k) based on a one year market decline? we're observing trends, not one time effects.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
a one year uptick does not upset a trend. do you empty your 401(k) based on a one year market decline? we're observing trends, not one time effects.
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Thoroughly irrelevant. I can concede every point about long term trends and it doesn't matter even a little bit. If there has been an uptick because police are inhibited and criminals are emboldened --the Ferguson Effect -- then the consequences and the political fallout are real.
 
Libertarian, Male, expect on Tuesdays.
 
Grand Mal said:
Texada Island. The biggest in the Strait, but little settled. We're north of the Gulf Islands (what you Americans call the San Juan Islands).
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Texada? just google earth'd it. wasn't familiar with it, I was thinking Mayne or Galiano. That sounds pretty cool. It would be fun for me to live on an island, except that I work odd hours in the city (Seattle) and ferry fares would run me dry....

My son has a license for handguns and a buddy here who used to shoot competitively in the Forces has a collection that lots of Americans might envy but, yeah, no-one I know intends them for protection. Gun violence here is either gangster-on-gangster in the city or feuds, disputes, vendettas, etc. in the rural areas. In 2012 the murder rate in BC (province-wide) was 1.54/100,000 but in the Northwest Territories it was 11.53 and 14.84 in Nunavut. Different cultures, even within the same country.
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Most gun violence here is the same deal. in the 90s throughout the 2000s, as the price of crack went down and gangs declined there was a massive cut in the murder rate.

but statistics show that the vast majority of US Murder Victims have criminal records themselves. people hear about mass shootings on the BBC and think America was have blood running down the streets. truth is, it's not really bad here. especially where I live. Canada is one of those countries like the US though, where there's a clear urban-rural divide. really there's a culture clash everywhere that there's a strong R-U divide.
 
Social democrat (and proud of it).
 
If I were to describe myself, I would say I am in independent who applies the same standards to all people, and so am opposed to the hypocritical identity politics of of the illiberal left as well as dogmatism of the illiberal right.

I like Sam Harris and Bill Maher quite a lot, as both have the balls and intelligence to speak truth to idiocy and stand up for true liberal values.
 
Riveroaks said:
You can always convert TORY to GOP or LIBERAL to DEM.

And if neither of the above then INDEPENDENT.
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I've heard it said that nearly all political parties in the EU are to the left of the Democrats here in the USA, or some ****e like that...ideologically speaking... Don't know how accurate it is though, as I have not made even a cursory study of political parties around the world.
 
Moderate Right said:
Who are you?
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We don't register with parties in Tennessee, so I'm an "independent." No doubt I lean democratic, although regularly vote for my republican congressman with no hesitation and just voted to reelect our republican governor.
 
I identify as a Republican but my state (Mississippi) does not register party affiliation, so I checked the "Other" box.
 
Ahlevah said:
I identify as a Republican but my state (Mississippi) does not register party affiliation, so I checked the "Other" box.
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I'm currently considering registering as a democrat if there's still time, so I can vote in the primary for my state.

Kinda wish it had open primaries.

Edit: should be enough time, election isn't for another 10 months or so
 
Im a male who happens to be registered to vote as a 'Democrat'.
 
The Mark said:
Kinda wish it had open primaries.
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The only thing about the open primary is there's the possibility of a distorted result. For example, in our last election for U.S. Senate, Chris McDaniel won the primary against incumbent Thad Cochran. Then Democrats who didn't vote for a Democrat in the primary were permitted to vote in the Republican runoff and this was the result:

In an improbable ending to a wild race, six-term Sen. Thad Cochran (R) of Mississippi defeated tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in a primary runoff vote – and did so with a critical assist from Democratic voters, many of them African-American....

Just three weeks ago, Cochran’s 42-year political career looked to be finished. He had come in second behind Mr. McDaniel, a state senator, in the June 3 primary. Because neither had won a majority, the race went to a runoff. That’s when the Cochran campaign and key outside groups rewrote the playbook, aided by emergency fundraising by top GOP establishment figures in Washington.

How Mississippi Democrats and GOP bigwigs helped Thad Cochran win - CSMonitor.com
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So the idea that Thad was the choice of Republicans is somewhat of a misnomer. I mean, if you're going to let people vote across party lines in a primary, why have it?
 
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