LuangPrabangisinLaos

LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_j9yql3l wrote

In Canada greater Montréal has a population of 1.5 million and had 19 firearm related homicides. This is one of the worst years in the last 10.

Philadelphia is an American city of about 1.5 million. Had 512 homocides in 2022 but I can't accurately ascertain how many were from guns.

I can say for 2023 there have been 51 firearm related homocides in 2023 as of Feb 23 in Philly.

It's hard to kill people without easy access to guns, and Canada's primary source of firearms used for murder are from South of the border, because legal gun owners get a background check done every 24 hours and if anything comes up they lose their guns. You don't have a permit? Jail. You have a permit but you didn't follpw your ascribed route to your registered range and your pistol is locked in its box in your trunk? Jail. Personal sale? Complicated.

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LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_j2yjy29 wrote

Cuba is 70 miles from Florida. Castro permitting nukes on his island, the fact the cia lost to Castro during the revolution, fhe Bay of pigs fiasco...there really wasn't any way to affect that soft power in way that did risk American interests at home.

And I'm not evening going to mention Cuban lobbies in the states.

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LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_j28wnhf wrote

>No real pain or passion tied into it

Kind of sick that a project around awareness can be disregarded because the audience can't enjoy a painful connection between the artist and their work. That sentiment is in the same vein as the enjoyment of blood sports.

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