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Bernardo de La Paz

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17. When you start looking, you can maybe think one day you can call other nations "smug"

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #7)

Wed Jun 2, 2021, 06:23 PM

Jun 2021

But first you have to START looking.

If you are honest you will retract your slam.

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Meanwhile in Canada.... [View all] Heartstrings Jun 2021 OP

They Should Save Their Breath SoCalDavidS Jun 2021 #1

If you think you can or you think you can't, you are right! Henry Ford Escurumbele Jun 2021 #21

Good For You On Helping The Cause SoCalDavidS Jun 2021 #23

I would not disagree with your post; sadly. Evolve Dammit Jun 2021 #45

Imagine being smug days after the discovery of 215 bodies at the Kamloops School. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2021 #2

They looked for the bodies. We'll have to see if we look around our tribal schools. RussellCattle Jun 2021 #6

Indeed! WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2021 #7

When you start looking, you can maybe think one day you can call other nations "smug" Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #17

It wasn't the government of Canada that looked though. Cobalt Violet Jun 2021 #8

It didn't happen until government paid for the ground-penetrating radar Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #31

No, you are wrong. The Canadian Govt approved the money for the search, akbacchus_BC Jun 2021 #72

No, though you are right about the indigineous people perservering Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #75

And they're going to be searching every residential school luvtheGWN Jun 2021 #26

This AllyCat Jun 2021 #27

Careful - versions of these schools were everywhere malaise Jun 2021 #10

During over 80 years. Imagine being smug in USA that ONLY 299 CHILDREN died in 2020 gun violence Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #12

Kids are shooting back, America is great! StClone Jun 2021 #41

Imagine being smug that there is no Truth and Reconciliation in the US for Native Americans Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #13

Imagine being smug on the 100th anniversary when HUNDREDS Americans died in ONE DAY . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #14

Imagine being a smug American when the USA is trying to HIDE 1619 & slavery & Jan 6 Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #16

My exact take. intheflow Jun 2021 #19

Smug?? because we face our history and its problems? Bev54 Jun 2021 #25

Are you fucking kidding me? Scrivener7 Jun 2021 #32

Nobody is being smug. It is two different issues. What the govt and the catholic school akbacchus_BC Jun 2021 #70

John Wesley Harding. A man so mean he once shot someone just for snoring. LanternWaste Jun 2021 #93

We know what we need---we just can't get the laws passed. BarbD Jun 2021 #3

and NJCher Jun 2021 #5

If one wanted gun control in the US, Jarqui Jun 2021 #4

Isn't that the truth. If I were an African American I would own one and know how to use it. GulfCoast66 Jun 2021 #52

How do you know they don't? whathehell Jun 2021 #98

I never insinuated African Americans don't. I know some that do. And practice with them. GulfCoast66 Jun 2021 #118

I'm pretty sure the GOP would be all for gun control if Jan 6 had been a success. plimsoll Jun 2021 #90

Riiiight whathehell Jun 2021 #97

K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2021 #9

I wish I could move to Canada. SoonerPride Jun 2021 #11

Beautiful British Columbia. roamer65 Jun 2021 #15

They still do... SeattleVet Jun 2021 #22

I did a diving trip many years ago in the Johnstone Strait. roamer65 Jun 2021 #24

Did you ever see their freshwater phosphorous lakes? Amazing grantcart Jun 2021 #86

I didn't. roamer65 Jun 2021 #91

Playing with seals in the water? whathehell Jun 2021 #108

They are very curious animals. roamer65 Jun 2021 #117

Canada routinely slaughters about 400,000 baby seals a year whathehell Jun 2021 #119

I know they still did but not that many. roamer65 Jun 2021 #120

Yes, that many, and It's brutally cruel.. whathehell Jun 2021 #121

We do, and it is. BobTheSubgenius Jun 2021 #30

I could very easily live there. roamer65 Jun 2021 #40

And in many places not nearly as cold and snowy. I should have done so years ago..... George II Jun 2021 #48

I wish I could. I would in a New York minute. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2021 #60

Same here in SC. But Canada doesn't want people my age. Nt raccoon Jun 2021 #74

My dad was from Prince Edward Island. LakeArenal Jun 2021 #84

Apart from the current Covid problem whathehell Jun 2021 #99

Family responsibilities SoonerPride Jun 2021 #105

I see.. whathehell Jun 2021 #106

Come on. I live in Oklahoma SoonerPride Jun 2021 #107

."Come on", nothing whathehell Jun 2021 #111

Funny you have no problems weighing in on our country but Bev54 Jun 2021 #112

Funny you haven't noticed you've put the cart before the horse whathehell Jun 2021 #115

I reckon they don't have videogames in Canada. Midnight Writer Jun 2021 #18

They do, but when something unfortunate happens in the game... JHB Jun 2021 #109

I shared this KT2000 Jun 2021 #20

You don't need to apologize for just pointing out the truth. Martin68 Jun 2021 #28

The majority of Americans agree. SergeStorms Jun 2021 #29

the money donated to gun control groups is tiny compared to the amounts pro-gun groups get Kaleva Jun 2021 #39

oh we have them...check out the rwnjs in alberta dawn5651 Jun 2021 #43

A suprising, or at least unexpected, partial reason for that difference is the Canadian BobTheSubgenius Jun 2021 #55

Great points on short campaign, limited donations, lack of corporate money, paper ballots Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #59

Sigh. Why can't we have sensibility like that? KPN Jun 2021 #68

I talk to Canadian business owners several times a week... MontanaMama Jun 2021 #33

That is true, we have conservative nut jobs here as well and the anti maskers Bev54 Jun 2021 #63

In Our Defense Gymbo Jun 2021 #34

Give us a break??????????????? Ferrets are Cool Jun 2021 #37

What? Our population is entirely crammed up against the southern border. knightmaar Jun 2021 #51

The biggest problem - self reflection. Bev54 Jun 2021 #64

Defense of what? Defense of mass shootings? LanternWaste Jun 2021 #94

Yes we do, but DownriverDem Jun 2021 #35

That Damn Amendment colsohlibgal Jun 2021 #36

Nice to know we can 'visit' if we transform into Gilead. BlueWavePsych Jun 2021 #38

i wouldn't call this true. nova scotia,,,mass shooting a year ago....ontario,,,3 people shot in a dawn5651 Jun 2021 #42

The numbers do not compare. Not even close Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #46

And they've got hockey brawls! But - you guessed it - peppertree Jun 2021 #44

is Inequality an issue in Canada? I can find stats and articles online, Baked Potato Jun 2021 #47

Which inequality? Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #49

Wealth and income. I suppose that's a worldwide thing. Baked Potato Jun 2021 #53

To some extent yes but not like the US Bev54 Jun 2021 #65

Thanks for the details. It sounds like your conditions are Baked Potato Jun 2021 #82

Canada is not a beacon of virtue. Racism is alive and well here. akbacchus_BC Jun 2021 #71

Thanks AGAIN...Canadian discrimination against their Indigenous people whathehell Jun 2021 #104

Learned today that the 2nd.. zentrum Jun 2021 #50

Not quite. Slave control was an interest of southern states, but even abolitionist Pennsylvania... SYFROYH Jun 2021 #54

No second amendment treestar Jun 2021 #56

It is the misinterpretation of your second amendment that gets in the way Bev54 Jun 2021 #67

Yes, that may be treestar Jun 2021 #80

So, you know all about it, do you? whathehell Jun 2021 #101

Wow what a friendly and welcoming person you are! Bev54 Jun 2021 #110

Yes! whathehell Jun 2021 #113

Save your insults for someone else Bev54 Jun 2021 #114

What insults? whathehell Jun 2021 #116

Yeah, um, I think we get it.. whathehell Jun 2021 #57

No, you do not get it. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #58

The Hell I don't whathehell Jun 2021 #66

Of course no 2nd A in Canada or Oz or UK or .... But that is a list of US RW excuses, debunked. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #73

Are you KIDDING me?..it's no "RW excuse", it's a FACT whathehell Jun 2021 #78

Yes, I know 2A is a fact. I never claimed it was an RW excuse, so don't attempt to Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #81

Please Re-Read your posts whathehell Jun 2021 #83

Read. You turned 180 what I wrote Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2021 #92

Um, Bernie? It seems you are, again, misreading the post. whathehell Jun 2021 #95

That's cynical canetoad Jun 2021 #61

Whatever whathehell Jun 2021 #62

It is not that easy to have gun control in the US as opposed to Canada! akbacchus_BC Jun 2021 #69

THANK You. whathehell Jun 2021 #79

Hi akbacchus_BC whathehell Jun 2021 #96

Everywhere there is peace bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #76

If the last douchebag was re-elected, Canada might have a refugee border crisis IronLionZion Jun 2021 #77

Canada does so much better firm we do on gun reform Cymande Jun 2021 #85

That may be because they have so much less to fight.. whathehell Jun 2021 #88

Yes they do but their vaccination rollout has been epically shitty BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #102

Newsflash: world wide wally Jun 2021 #87

K&R Blue Owl Jun 2021 #89

But we need our guns because ... dawg Jun 2021 #100

Get back to me when they can get more than 30,000 people a day vaccinated. BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #103