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Leo Wesson
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> On Jan 7, 2017, at 16:53, Michael R. Collins
> <MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 17-01-06 6:36 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> Really .......... these mass shootings in the USA are becoming as common as
>> daily football and baseball scores!
>>
>> You have a gun and violence culture that is frightening.
>>
>> We here north of the 49th parallel are by no means surprised at these daily
>> outrages.
>>
>> Pay yor NRA dues and this is what you get.
>>
>> Anybody with half a brain will avoid the USA. We do !!
>>
>> jh
> A fellow Canadian (and also British-born, though a very young emigrant from
> there) would like to offer a slightly different perspective. I am much more
> disheartened than frightened by the US "gun culture", which I believe does
> not and never will deliver the safety and security that its proponents seem
> to push. And am in agreement with an apparent minority that the only sensible
> reading of the Second Amendment is collective / states' right rather than
> individual rights, in spite of the courts' recent drift towards the latter.
>
> I think the general (but by no means universal) Canadian attitude *is*
> anti-gun, and thus critical of what we perceive as such an integral part of
> US culture. However, I hesitate to adopt the superior attitude that I hear so
> often in my own country. Part of the latter may be anti-Americanism driven by
> the elephant-and-mouse relationship we have with out southern neighbour.
> But... we have our own significant problems that require attention, not
> enough of which we pay.
>
> And I will continue to visit my friends and my favourite places in the US,
> regardless of any reservations.
>
> Michael
>
> P.S. I wish I could find the author, for attribution, of something I heard
> long, long ago, and I quote or paraphrase here: "Americans are benignly
> ignorant of Canada, and Canadians are malevolently informed about the United
> Status."
>
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