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JaggedyEaredJackXI t1_jdcots6 wrote

The Liberal Party has turned into the foreign asset that they accused others of. This fucker was even telling China to keep holding onto the two Michael's who were kidnapped by the Chinese gov. because it might give the Conservatives an edge. Seems our allies are sick of Canada's shit and are revealing how deep the corruption goes.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9570437/liberal-mp-han-dong-secretly-advised-chinese-diplomat-in-2021-to-delay-freeing-two-michaels-sources/

Of course Trudeau won't do a public inquiry. If he is innocent in this it would literally clear his name.

Edit: lol at whoever is abusing the suicide helpline feature. Go touch grass.

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urrrkaj t1_jdcn3ka wrote

Bean burritos are super cheap, filling, and can be changed up flavor wise depending on the sauce you use. They even make microwaveable rice packets or have microwaveable rice cookers if you don’t want to make rice in a pot. I use spinach because i can use it in all kinds of dishes for the week. It is our lazy meal.

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jaybeezo t1_jdcm927 wrote

The kid was on some kind of disciplinary plan that required him to be frisked every morning at school. He had likely threatened this exact action towards staff/students.

So everyone, including this kid's parents, knew he was a risk. Was he still able to get one of his parent's guns or did he score it on the street?

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BleedOutCold t1_jdcm8cq wrote

> guns were harder to get in the 80s

What are you smoking? There's a great case to be made that specific kinds of tacticool firearms are marketed more aggressively and occupy a bigger chunk of the market share these days, but in terms of pure ease of access the 80s and 90s were definitely less restrictive times for buying (much less possessing) guns in general and handguns in specific.

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> There is simply vastly more guns in America now then in the 80s.

Are you...are you suggesting that if someone wanted one in the 80s, there just weren't enough for sale? Because that's just screaming I wasn't alive in the 80s! The US population has also increased roughly 50% since 1980, and of course we're concerned about access, which is a per capita thing.

>Plus in the 94, we had a ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004

Heh, you're not real clear on what that thing did, I see. I used to own a few 12 round mags with the RESTRICTED LEO/GOVT USE ONLY 10-94 branding...they came with a legally purchased pistol I received from a FFL around 2002. All the 94 "ban" did was change what the stocks on the new ARs in the shop looked like, and how expensive the old ARs and standard cap mags were...that's it.

>shooting with assault weapons have grown exponentially since

Yes, numbers are what they are. But you're mistaking correlation with causation here. Moreover, 10 drops in a bucket is an exponential increase from 1 drop in a bucket...but we're still talking drops in a bucket. The staggeringly vast majority of US gun homicides were and are handguns.

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synchrohighway t1_jdclo7x wrote

Easy access to guns. Youths in other countries feel the same depression and pain and rage and play the same violent games and watch the same violent tv and movies and use the same social media that sometimes promotes violence, but the access to guns is what keeps school shootings down.

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