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You know, I guess the biggest cultural difference I can outline between Canadians and Americans is that I don't know a single person outside of those living in the far north that thinks a reasonable response to hearing suspicious noises outside your house is to go out with a gun and start blasting 'warning shots' to scare intruders away. Maybe it's the hump I'll never get over, because I can't link up 'on my property' with 'I'm in my right to take your life' which seems to be the basis for so many stand your ground laws and killing of innocents in the American gun culture. Looking through the average messageboard, it appears the standard American thought process is that the second someone steps off the public sidewalk and on to your grass, they automatically become Whedon-esque Reavers, capable of raping, murdering and cannibalizing your whole family unless you line up as much firepower as possible to deter them.
Maybe it's my pussied, not a real man, kinda faggy weak liberal side, but seriously, how do you live with gunning somebody down in those circumstances? I mean, maybe he's trying to steal my bike. Maybe he wants to steal my television. Is that worth living with the fact that I've just killed a human being to protect my stuff? I just can't see that as anything beyond a broken feral culture, so hopped up on this fantasy that roving gangs of rapists and murders are just looking for any sign of weakness to break in and ravage your family; that the lie has been wrapped up in Batman and John Wayne for so long that it is easy enough to swallow killing someone in the highly statistically unlikely chance that they're really preparing for something worse than petty crime.
This woman and her supporters will loudly decry this as a tragic accident. But it's not. The gun didn't accidentally go off. Her intention was to put bullets in the air. I just can't concieve the thinking that justifies why in the first place.
You know, I guess the biggest cultural difference I can outline between Canadians and Americans is that I don't know a single person outside of those living in the far north that thinks a reasonable response to hearing suspicious noises outside your house is to go out with a gun and start blasting 'warning shots' to scare intruders away. Maybe it's the hump I'll never get over, because I can't link up 'on my property' with 'I'm in my right to take your life' which seems to be the basis for so many stand your ground laws and killing of innocents in the American gun culture. Looking through the average messageboard, it appears the standard American thought process is that the second someone steps off the public sidewalk and on to your grass, they automatically become Whedon-esque Reavers, capable of raping, murdering and cannibalizing your whole family unless you line up as much firepower as possible to deter them.
Maybe it's my pussied, not a real man, kinda faggy weak liberal side, but seriously, how do you live with gunning somebody down in those circumstances? I mean, maybe he's trying to steal my bike. Maybe he wants to steal my television. Is that worth living with the fact that I've just killed a human being to protect my stuff? I just can't see that as anything beyond a broken feral culture, so hopped up on this fantasy that roving gangs of rapists and murders are just looking for any sign of weakness to break in and ravage your family; that the lie has been wrapped up in Batman and John Wayne for so long that it is easy enough to swallow killing someone in the highly statistically unlikely chance that they're really preparing for something worse than petty crime.
This woman and her supporters will loudly decry this as a tragic accident. But it's not. The gun didn't accidentally go off. Her intention was to put bullets in the air. I just can't concieve the thinking that justifies why in the first place.
