Quote:
Originally Posted by dyna mo
far-reaching effects like what?
|
Travel and tourism, for starters. North of the border we are constantly inundated by the media about the daily stories of shootings...and I'm sure it has a deterrent effect at times on people wanting to travel or vacation in certain areas. It's perceived as a lot of civil unrest these days - and one never knows where another shooting is going to crop up.
Other far-reaching effects such as friends and family members being involved. Everyday I hear and read these stories and wonder if someone I know caught a bullet...wounded, killed.
Our border patrols officers have started carrying guns in recent years at border crossing due to the increasingly large numbers of weapons being smuggled back and forth. Costs, training and implementation of this isn't cheap...another burden to the taxpayer.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dyna mo
you do get the drift of this thread though, in a sea of anti-Americanism at teh GFY, the caring about American gun culture here is just another snide anti-American jab.
|
Of course I get the drift - and my reply above wasn't intended as a trite jab or bashing, merely an observation of what I see and hear everyday. It's genuinely a concern to some of us...and we're starting to see more mass shooting here in Canada these days - and whether that's an influence from down south is debatable. Just today in fact we had a mass shooting at a cafe in Woodbridge, just north of Toronto. Two dead...two injured (one in critical).
There's no doubt a ripple effect takes place.