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[blackpowder]

Actually had we lost in 1812 maybe your grain wouldn't have such a long journey to coast. Oilsands would be full bore. And Quebec wouldn't exist as we know it.
I'm beginning to hate this topic.
The discussion is now polarized. A point where few make sense and no one changes their mind.
Looking at those photos reminds me of watching Ken Burns' latest series on youth mental health in America. Similar here im sure. System failure. Societal ignorance.
Topped off with a 2 year lockdown.
Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet.....

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Actually had we lost in 1812 maybe your grain wouldn't have such a long journey to coast. Oilsands would be full bore. And Quebec wouldn't exist as we know it.
I'm beginning to hate this topic.
The discussion is now polarized. A point where few make sense and no one changes their mind.
Looking at those photos reminds me of watching Ken Burns' latest series on youth mental health in America. Similar here im sure. System failure. Societal ignorance.
Topped off with a 2 year lockdown.
Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet.....

Are you daring to suggest that the root cause isn't the existence of guns? Blasphemy.
The Fine folks in the pictures above look like good upstanding citizens , well balanced with access to any mental health they may require.

Not inclined to any violent tendencies, would have gone on with their lives without incident if guns didn't exist.

The lefts solution sounds much much easier than yours. Just ban guns and all of the other societal problems will cease to exist..

[TSIPP]

Former Japanese PM shot with shotgun tonight

Now the turd will make home made shotguns illegal, thank goodness the former PM wasn’t killed with an AR.

Oh wait a minute, dead is dead it really doesn’t matter what the weapon was.

[foragefarmer]

Actually had we lost in 1812 maybe your grain wouldn't have such a long journey to coast. Oilsands would be full bore. And Quebec wouldn't exist as we know it.
I'm beginning to hate this topic.
The discussion is now polarized. A point where few make sense and no one changes their mind.
Looking at those photos reminds me of watching Ken Burns' latest series on youth mental health in America. Similar here im sure. System failure. Societal ignorance.
Topped off with a 2 year lockdown.
Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet.....

I'm hoping all the likes regarding your post were directed to the seriousness of mental health issues so many young people are suffering from.

But, based on postings on my Happy Canada Day thread, I thinking excitement was generated just on you mentioning the USA winning the war of 1812.

[agstar77]

Their mental health has a lot to do with their love affair with guns. That is at the root of their problems.

[blackpowder]

Their mental health has a lot to do with their love affair with guns. That is at the root of their problems.

I'm not going to defend guns.
But you sir, sound like part of the problem.
Over time we have come to no longer accept drunk driving, steel dashes or no seat belts. We have come to expect hard hats and dust masks. Guns fit in the no longer acceptable column in our society. To hell with America even tho, it's a smuggling issue and a pop culture immersion problem for us.
The seperate issue of mental health education and societal awareness is today where steel dashes or dust masks were 50 years ago. Hoping that in 50 years they will be understood as well as dust masks in the grain bin are now.

[blackpowder]

I'm hoping all the likes regarding your post were directed to the seriousness of mental health issues so many young people are suffering from.

But, based on postings on my Happy Canada Day thread, I thinking excitement was generated just on you mentioning the USA winning the war of 1812.

Imagine a Canada that threw off the colony identity. Not suggesting better.
Possibly less tolerant of being dictated to by an unconnected, distant ruler. Western Canadian history is full of not much more than just that.
We may blame 1812 on our long lines of transportation, but who do we blame for the long reign of the CWB? Resource management, or Laurentian elitism, still prevalent today? Would Quebec have all it has today if the outlier provinces didn't have an eat shit and smile attitude for so long? Some of us are still acting like subjects.
US history may be bloody but it's decisive and they darn sure wrote it themselves.
Had Riel had the population and resources of the CSA how would it look today.
I know I'm Canadian and I'm definitely okay with that, cant change it anyway.
A broader understanding of North American history by others would however make for more stimulating conversation.

[TSIPP]

If the border ran north to south instead of east to west I’d be fine with that but what do we do with comifornia?