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faramir77 posted...

I don't know why so many Americans live in total fear of a tyrannical government takeover. Literally nobody in Canada lives in fear like that.

Because Canada wasn't founded on a rebellion against a tyrannical power and your government doesn't actively spy on its own citizens, hasn't performed illegal experiments on its citizens, hasn't authorized the use of drone strikes against its own citizens, etc, etc, etc.

darkknight109 posted...

And that's not even counting the fact that Spain and France were waging war against Britain overseas and preventing her from deploying the full strength of Britain's forces against the revolutionaries. Had France and Spain stayed out of it, the American revolution would have been crushed in short order.

Unlikely, considering that America was a world away.

VeeVees posted...

Sacrificing actual, current security to prepare for some paranoid, apocalyptic future is stupid.

And those who would sacrifice freedom for the illusion of security will have neither.

VeeVees posted...

LMAO, ya, keep comparing shithole 3rd world countries to a developed country.

Everyone knows your government is corrupt as fuck. For example, NRA is paying millions to keep outdated laws that benefit them.

Literally nothing to do with corruption for starters (for actual corruption, look at a gun control advocating state senator who attempted to facilitate the illegal sale of weapons to a terrorist group), second things only got *worse* after the new laws went through. After the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 and other new legislation, we had Kip Kinkel in 1998 and Columbine in 1999.
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