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Originally Posted by Bodyhammer86
I don't mean to threadjack here, but last I checked, you can't buy handguns at Wal-mart. Granted, they have hunting rifles and shotguns, but criminals don't use those kind of weapons and they don't get their guns legally anyway, which is why they're criminals and since they don't give two shits what the laws are, they're gonna find a way to obtain those weapons, be it having them smuggled in, having individual pieces of them shipped in, or making them themselves. Besides that, the cities have many other factors that account for high crime, such as high numbers of minorities, gangs, underfunded police forces, and so on.
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/addendum to threadjack:
you can buy rifles and shotguns at Canadian Tire too. for what that's worth
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on topic:
I have worked with many Americans over the years, and find them to be the nicest, most polite people around. They go the extra mile to make sure that you are accommodated in all their dealings.
politcally, they are as divisive as Canada, with a seemingly dead heat between rural/conservatism and urban/liberalism outlook. I do agree that their insularity is grating, but given the sway and pure volume of cultural exposure that we receive from them in Canada, it's often hard for us to maintain our *different* perspective. It's no wonder that they accept as gospel what ever the media down there dishes out. It's a bit scary, mind you, because the media tends to atract the extreme or unbalanced people