I do own a couple of military style rifles (semi-auto) which while not strictly prohibited under Canadian law but are frowned upon.

I also do want to say, just for disclosure, I will use my firearms to defend myself and my family from those that mean them harm.

Not going to talk you out of that, but, yeah, I'm not too happy about military 'style' firearms in the hands of civilians, I really am not, and public disdain there is rooted in experience. The statistics are speaking a very clear language as to what these 'home defense' weapons are eventually actually used for, and it's not the purpose intended by the owner. You either have them just lying around so the kids will eventually play with them (the statistics about toddlers that accidentally shoot their caretakers in the US alone are beyond wacko), or you have them locked up in a safe, which is definitely the responsible thing to do, yet in the case of a break-in makes them completely useless.

Love you.

I am shameful that I cannot criticize my government, but if you are proud of being able to criticizing your government, I would say you are too naive. If the government can be criticized, that means something else has the real power. I guess you know what you cannot criticize. If you don't even know, good luck.
Actually I admire the US that the government acts like an attorney of people in power. If people have issues with the government, they just erect a new government(change the attorney), but people in power do not change.

You also mentioned beautiful sites and ugly sites in China. Sorry, I don't get the point. I've seen harmonious countryside in Pennsylvania; I've also seen mice/rats enjoying meals in New York subway. I've seen beautiful Cherry Bloosom in Washington DC, but I've never spectated horror of dark in Baltimore(I don't want to lose my life).

No one can deny that China has many more issues, but I don't think always viewing a country you are not familliar with with prejudice is good for learning the world.

the perspective of ur parents is relatively one-sided,
true, the countryside is pretty shitty
but not all of them are
what ur parents said I've never seen in my life
I am from a small city and around the city, there is a huge countryside
but no one lives in a mud house
nowadays, peasants could build a villa in the countryside but people in Beijing, Shanghai are suffering the expensive cost of an apartment.
but I've heard it from the news, in north-west China, it might my that poor,
besides like my above answer, China has only been developed after WW2
How many years has your country used to become a developed country?
Do the math, tell me how developed China should be?
I have no idea when ur parents visited China but every one or two years when I visit my hometown
there are unaccountable changes
people who live in mud houses always have a chance to go east and work for big factories like the one said above like Foxxcon, even they don't have any school certificates.
They stay in the mud house cause they don't wanna leave their land.
Haven't you heard from your free news that China builds every single year thousands of miles of railroads, highways and normal road?
I am sure there are some reports in your language.
Why do we do that? To connect those stay behind volks!
to bring convenience to the countryside
No one forces them to work on the east side
the press could be not open but not as bad as you think
we still can learn it from internet, tv
yeah, sure, China is not as open as u developed country
after you 've learnt how big differences there are, you would probably shut up?
besides, I always have nooooooooooooo idea what do you guys mean when you criticise our country
just dislike there's a lot of people?
just dislike the "dictatorship"?
or you are just trying to help?
do you ever think about it why is China so "backwards"?
Let me teach you some history here.
I could list at least 8 countries which have invaded China 100years ago,
If your Geolocation is true, then congrats buddy!
Italy has sent 80 men to invade Qing dynasty
Yeah, it just ONE company (military) aside Japanese 20000 units, Russia 10000+units, UK 10000+units, France, US, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
The Qing government was a coward government,
TRUE!
But who gave you the right to beat a coward inside his home and then do a great heist?
What happens if I break into a famous coward's home in the town and then beat, rape, and slaughter their families, loot their precious treasures in the entire home?
I am sure it is illegal, and everyone in the town or maybe even in the country will despise this criminal.
Is there any of these your history book has taught you?
May I ask why no history book has taught you that?
Don't you get curious when you go to the museum, why is there soooooooo many Chinese things storing in an Italian museum?
You think you 've earned it?
Like once I've been to Irland, our tour guide shows me a dragon rope from Chinese emperor.
He sure was very proud, thinking that Irish collector has ability having it.
And whos problem was that?
Who causes backwards development in China?
Chinese people or the invaders?
Who gave us one cent for War reparations?
This country may not be perfect, but every single cell of it was built on our own(or bought on our own乛ᴗ乛)
I am sure now you want Chinese not-free media control to kick in cause the truth u never heard about is hurting you.
You might think that what I've heard are mind control things published by the government,
yeah, like your media does not lead the public opinions.
I JUST HOPE EVERYONE BEFORE YOU CRITICISE SOMETHING, LOOK UP THE HISTORY BOOK AND DONT THINK YOU VE ALREADY KNOWN EVERYTHING!.
I thank all of you, for thinking that China is a developed country just because your news is telling you how rich China is and how good is our economy.
The truth is, we are not.
If you d like to help us developing rightful, just give us our treasure back or put your selves in the field like social workers they are also needed in China, everyone who can read this topic has the ability to teach those little girls and boy in the north-west poor area.
like a scientist or a sociologist can always write a paper or article to publish.
If you want to criticize, also write an article or a paper with fully understandable arguments and the aid should be he able to help people not just " I don't like you whatever I just wanna hurt you". This kinds of arguments can be seen in the whole world if you are up to something I am sure someone and sometimes there's gonna be a scholar who will notice your opinion then do something about it.
I am here was just looking for the answer why Gwent has no Chinese in inter. server.
A buddy has told me to file a complaint with the support.
China has tons of problems are waiting for people whos capable of, to resolve them
Those problems are very, completely, utterly difficult and complicated.
For the record, China's area is 31 times bigger than Italy,
People are 22 times more than Italy.
I am not bragging about anything,
just do the math
how complicated would it be to manage that amount of people and that amount of territory?
True,
there s been a lot of things the government hasn't done well
Something can be patched up and some cant.
Does the leader of the Earth USA do every right?
So, why do you give no tolerance to China?
Afterall we are just a country which has begun to industrializing for only 70 years.
China changes a lot, every day.
I just hope that you guys can keep an open mind to see this country
Have a nice weekend.

Sorry, I didn't post to brag or to attack chinese people, you're reacting too much to my comments!
I simply hate dictatorships or similar governments and I just wish that chinese citizens were more free, that's all.
Let's leave the patriotic antagonism to politicians and leaders.

This is a very biased far left wing look at what "deep state" means. "Deep state" doesn't actually having anything do with one party, and the term isn't directly about the Obama admin. A democrat admin can have a "deep state" working against them the same as a republican admin.

"Deep state" is simply a shadow government that is working against the elected party possibly using gathered intelligence to prevent or limit the policies of said elected party, that was duly elected by the people, from taking effect. It could also reference working to replace the duly elected party or president. Seeing as the majority of government employees tend to be liberal (based on donation records, etc.), conservatives tend to feel the "deep state" is working against their goals the most.

You would be naïve or extremely biased to think that a government with so many departments and people doesn't have parts that are working against them, especially after a transition to a new elected party. They could be working towards their own goals, or that of the party that was replaced, but they aren't working to further the goals the elected party that is for sure.

Typically when a new president is elected the old president rides off in the sun if you will, they don't typically try to undermine the new admin regardless if they disagree with them. That is all part of the peaceful transfer of power.

Obama on the other hand, has been pretty vocal about certain things the Trump admin is doing. This is breaking with years of tradition. Obama also decided to stay in DC after the election, not far from the White House... something else that is a break from tradition (the old president typically leaves DC). This has fueled "conspiracy theories" if you will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States

4chan is for shit posting. They do this stuff because they know the type of reaction that can get from people (especially left wing people), the media feeds into it doing exactly what they wanted from it. And calling Roseanne Barr right wing is really funny. She has been pretty liberal her whole life, as she puts it "You all went so f***ing far out, you lost everyone" talking about people on the left. Just saying I don't agree with everything she put's on twitter but I just find that funny.

Hmmm, I know plenty of collectors that have guns like that who have never hurt a fly and have never gotten into trouble legally. But somehow they have "a horrific psychological problem" for wanting to collect an inanimate object?

Like a lot of people you miss the point of the 2nd amendment. It's not to give everyone guns, just to give everyone a gun. The founding fathers could not even fathom an assault rifle. It's to give legal citizens a way to protect themselves from their government if that government impedes on the rights of the people, and taking away weapons that could match the military limits that (while also impeding on their rights I might add).

You have to view it in the time of when the amendment was written and what the USA was dealing with in regards to the English King when it was formed.

People think we are beyond that today in civilized society or that it isn't logical or needed, but those people I'm afraid failed to learn from history. We are not that civilized.

Personally, I'm all for letting the Parkland kids speak. The problem was the media only cared about speech that was against the 2nd amendment and refused to allow those parkland students that were for the 2nd amendment to speak, and there were supporters. You can't have an open and honest debate about such things if one side isn't given a voice to speak.

I'm also against political parties using kids as a means push political goals regardless of party, which is clearly happening here when it comes to gun rights.

Parklands survivors have been used and abused by the NRA and the political party bought by the NRA. Apart from that, the young people speak for themselves most courageously.

So it's a general term that the nutjobs may apply to other administrations in other times, but are now applying to the Obama administration like I said. OK.

I have a more European perspective, so your left and your right don't really seem that different to me and your Bernie Sanders appears as a somewhat less extreme right-winger at best, but I do know that supporting Donald Trump smacks you against the right hand wall and squishes your guts out, even from an American perspective. I'm pretty aware of Barr's "liberal" "old self", but it's not really important what fucked with her brain, whether it was way too much money, wild conspiracy theories, just plain ol' racism or a combination of factors. The fact remains, she's a celebrity, at present on the extreme right of your individual political spectrum, who spouts the most stupid and most dangerous of conspiracy nonsense.

Well, I would have gladly talked about what she puts on twitter, but you'd rather play stupid mind games about trying to put Barr in the left black box where maybe you'd talk smack about her, but once she's in your ball park, you'd really rather not talk about her at all. This is brazen bigotry, it's moral relativism, and it's whataboutism. It's just embarrassing. I hope I never see you insinuating somebody ELSE's world would be black and white again. That is what I would find funny.

They can collect replicas for all I care, no problem (unless they're black collectors, because that would totally get them killed). But the real thing doesn't belong in their hands, and collecting functional weapons of mass killing is perverse, yes.

As I said up there, the people have indeed not learned from history. Your government has turned tyrannical. The people who think of themselves as an "armed militia" are saving their bullets for a fictional government that they made up. You're right, they are in fact not even remotely civilized enough to own these kinds of guns. Take them away quickly, because these wildly privileged people are of course prone to violence, as they have shown in Charlottesville and elsewhere already.

I know of one Parkland student who parroted the "more guns help" narrative, and he has toured the Mercer/Sinclair media to the point of nausea and was given plenty of opportunity to speak, while at the same time no one from his former classmates, who stand united, has attacked the little guy, as much as the right wing propaganda media have orchestrated that to happen.

Still has jack shit to do with the second amendment! If you needed to repeal that for common sense gun laws - and, again, you really don't, as some state wide decisions have already shown - just do it. Because it would be a step TOWARDS being a civilized country. Your gun laws are fucking you up, it's clear to every other country and more than half of your own.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

All right, I may have stolen that last paragraph from a founding father or other.

It's sad that you actually believe that. Not directly related to Parkland, but there is plenty of valid info out there of school teachers, etc with very young children getting them to speak out against gun rights, even bribing them with "prizes". Gun rights is a concept that kids can not and do not understand. They are simply being used and taken advantage of during an emotional situation.

There were people advocating for banning assault weapons or more gun laws like you are, adults, when asked to identify even basic weapons like between an assault weapon or even a single shot weapon or even fake weapons used in movies they could not do it. They had zero knowledge about the things there were advocating against.

I'm not playing any game, if you look at her life and stuff that she promoted in her own show, you will see she promoted very liberal ideas. She is just not a hard left liberal nor am I defending her. The things she says and post is for her to defend... not me.

Saying stuff like this just shows how crazy you really are. I grew up knowing a black man who was an avid hunter and owned plenty of firearms. Taught his son and grandkids all how to properly own and shoot guns. Never had issue with the law or anybody else because he owed guns.

You like to pretend you are very open minded, but you are no different anyone else on the far left. Very close minded and not open to any debate or any type of reasonable line of thought.

Oh so now were going to turn to Charlottesville? Is like your go to answer for everything? So a few (I'll be generous and say maybe a few thousand at Charlottesville, maybe a few hundred thousand in America) share those extreme views on issues but you want to to take away weapons and come down on millions of legal gun owners who have done nothing wrong because some people are idiots?

Yep sounds like great plan, let the government take something from citizens when they have not committed a crime just because a few preach and say stupid shit. Slippery slope and all of that. Next we will be taking away cars, knifes, and more.

Oh wait, they came for the guns and when that didn't work they decided knife control was next logical solution: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/09/london-mayor-knife-control/500328002/

Oh really? So why do most statics show that hard gun laws like those found in the EU have done very little to help crime rates or even prevent things like terroism or mass shootings? Is it maybe because criminals don't follow the law? I mean I know it's a hard concept.

There are around 270 million to 310 million guns in circulation in America, even if we banned all guns tomorrow... underground shops would pop up over night and anyone that wanted to do harm could easily accomplish it even with guns being banned.

The utter bullshit you spew to defend a disgusting status quo that gets children killed again and again is absolutely disgusting. I have considered you to be full of shit on many occasions, but never something quite as disgusting as this. There has not been a high-casualty school shooting in Europe in almost a decade after Germany created a federal gun registry and increased regulation of firearm storage. None in the UK since 1997 when they banned all guns for civilians.

Imagine 20 goddamn years without a school shooting in the US.

Fuck you. Just fuck you.

I never said there was? Simply that gun violence happens there too even with strict gun laws or does life have no value to you unless it's kids at school? Is that what are saying? I suggest you take a min to collect yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks

You are either the dumbest ****** on the planet if you seriously can't see what's wrong with that "argument", or a lousy demagogue shilling for disgusting goal.

So now I'm dumb because you took something out of context and told me to fuck off? Great. Gotta love it.

I'm just pointing out what the data seems to be showing. You can be reactionary to these emotional situations, like you clearly are, or take a step back and look at the bigger picture. In most of these situations, established laws could have prevented them if people had simply done their jobs, no where is this more evident than Parkland. But you believe more laws will solve the problem when they already failed.

I just showed you clear examples of strict laws preventing it. That's what "the data is showing". The data is showing that a ban on guns is succesfully maintaining a school shooting rate of 0. Your response is "oh, but it didn't stop ALL the gun violence". Yeah, not all. Clearly, it's not worth just stopping a lot of it and keeping children safe if we can't prevent ALL of it everywhere. I guess we should also stop all health care. I mean, we won't be able to cure everybody, so we might as well cure no one.

I'm not being emotional in response to these situations. I'm being emotional in response to you being a disgusting fucking human being.