[ShepherdsDog]

fifeboy fifeboy:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

I own several including a 'few' old Chinese SKS which I bought for $200 each. I bought them because I collect older firearms..target shoot..hunt..and they were on sale not because I was worried about my neighbours or the perceived threat of home invasion. For those contingencies big dogs with big teeth sufficed.

My parents had one of those dust mops once upon a time. They ended up with my dogs when we went overseas.

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

He's talking about the US though so maybe there were armed guards in that institution.

The only US 'branch' of the Bank of Canada is inside the Canadian Consulate in New York City and it most certainly has armed guards as it should. The office trades in millions worth of bonds every day.

[ShepherdsDog]

The only time you see armed guards in Canadian banks is when Brinks or Loomis are dropping off deposits or picking up cash for ATMs

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

He's talking about the US though so maybe there were armed guards in that institution.

The only US 'branch' of the Bank of Canada is inside the Canadian Consulate in New York City and it most certainly has armed guards as it should. The office trades in millions worth of bonds every day.

I guess it's possible - when you visit the land of Mad Max - as the States have apparently become - it's only prudent to protect yourselves from the hordes of armed rabble outside waiting to storm the gates.

[fifeboy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

He's talking about the US though so maybe there were armed guards in that institution.

The only US 'branch' of the Bank of Canada is inside the Canadian Consulate in New York City and it most certainly has armed guards as it should. The office trades in millions worth of bonds every day.

I guess it's possible - when you visit the land of Mad Max - as the States have apparently become - it's only prudent to protect yourselves from the hordes of armed rabble outside waiting to storm the gates.

[ShepherdsDog]

Sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. People think things are getting worse....they're arming themselves like it's the end times and this just fuels the paranoia making things even worse. To me that is what has changed the US. It's become a mass societal mental illness. They see threats and enemies everywhere.

[raydan]

I blame the Internet... and by extension, Al Gore.

[Thanos]

fifeboy fifeboy:

Toy breeds fucking suck. They're about the only classification of dogs that I don't like and don't want anything to do with. I saw one of the worst dog bites ever from one of those nasty goddamn things. We were dropping our Scottie off at the groomers when a Shitzi up on the table bit one of the women working there. Grabbed her finger and pulled back hard, which resulted in a dual flaying/cheese-grater effect that shredded about three-quarters of the finger right down to the bone. The woman began screaming, blood was flying everywhere, and the place erupted in non-stop barking and whining and yelling as all the other dogs and people in the place began freaking out. The other groomers dropped everything to help her and we got out as fast as we got in. I went back in to give them my name and number in case they needed a witness for legal reasons but I never heard back from them.

[Zipperfish]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The violence is a cultural problem and not a gun problem. This is evidenced in the penchant for excessive violence that all too many law enforcement organizations express against their citizens and most of that violence does not involve firearms.

Not just violence, but gun violence in the US is much higher than Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand--countries that the US is most similar to, culturally. It's not to much of a stretch to concloude that the significantly elevated levels of gun violence are a result of easy access to firearms combined with a cultural inclination to accept settling of scores through guns.

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I'm not asking you to. But if you folks are going to go on about firearms in the schools it'd help if you weren't so emotional about the topic.

Emotional? This from the guy who can't through a thread without threatening to assail or kill somebody. The only thing I'm emotional about is being sick and tired of gun threads.

[Thanos]

Bart is correct though in that the long-term cultural and social collapse the United States has been experiencing since the 1960's is just as responsible for violence and social disorder as the glut of firearms is. If anything the firearms craze is an after-effect of the radicalization of American politics that began when the social fabric collapsed, not vice versa. I'm not offering any suggestions here, as both the social issues and the overabundance of firearms are things that can't really ever be repaired or solved, but it's not a chicken-vs-egg argument either. Things went to shit then everyone armed themselves for protection is how the linear projection of this went, not the other way around.

[Lemmy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Anywhere that you saw. Of course, where you're a parking attendant I don't imagine that you'd have seen too much.

I was a there for a summer job. I wish I'd been as important and well-paid as a parking attendant.

[BartSimpson]

[Gunnair]

raydan raydan:

I blame the Internet... and by extension, Al Gore.

Well, and pot prohibition of course. Who the hell would want an AR 15 if they were pleasantly baked all of the time?