USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up, Just as the founding fathers intended.
4 intruders.
This is my biggest gripe about gun nuts with multi weapons and higher capacity magazine.
If you've got more than 1 or 2 people busting into your "normal" house, then you certainly are doing something funky.
You can have one 6 shot revolver. Otherwise, I'd say you deserve whatever kind of shit storm knocked down your door.
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Poutine.
Tabarnac oui!
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1: Your source uses FBI data.
2: The criteria is clearly spelled out in your own source, and it changed in 2013 to be more strict.
3: Our mass shooting problem definitely requires extensive work.
4: Extremist violence does account for the vast majority, and right wing is the vast majority of extremist violence, especially if you count religious extremists. However, the abundance of guns certainly adds more since we are not the most extreme religious country, nor do we have the most percentage of right-wing idealologically aligned people.
5: Forcing cops to care has never worked because, according to SCOTUS, they're not required to do their job, even while on shift and present. Also, the most red flag sign of gun violence is domestic abuse, which most cops do on the regular, as well as right wing extremist ideation, which most cops engage in already. We'd be better off firing the domestic abusers and domestic terrorists that make up the majority and hiring social workers for most roles.
Switzerland has more guns per capita.
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4 intruders.
This is my biggest gripe about gun nuts with multi weapons and higher capacity magazine.
If you've got more than 1 or 2 people busting into your "normal" house, then you certainly are doing something funky.
You can have one 6 shot revolver. Otherwise, I'd say you deserve whatever kind of shit storm knocked down your door.
Otherwise, I’d say you deserve whatever kind of shit storm knocked down your door.
It's I.C.E.
The Kkklansmen aren't N I C E
Armed Minorities are harder to oppress.
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Thanking the bus drivers when exiting the bus.
Damn i just heard one person doing that today first time in my life..
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Thanking the bus drivers when exiting the bus.
Happens where I live in Denmark
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In Canada, people do not run from the rain... if they are out and about and it starts raining, they just ignore it, they don't walk faster, rarely improvise coverage, etc
In Venezuela, my country of origin, people run from the rain like it's lava falling from the sky
When I visited London (around the year 2000), I noticed that every man walking in the streets either wore a hat or carried an umbrella.
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Ireland?
Got it in one
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Poutine.
Poutine should be normal everywhere and I am devastated that it's not.
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Thanking the bus drivers when exiting the bus.
i always have, even as a grade school kid--back then the bus rides to and from school were so long, i saw the bus driver more on school days than my family.
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Thanking the bus drivers when exiting the bus.
Depends on the bus type though. A lot of buses have a rear door, and sometimes it's kinda rude to go out through the front when there's a lot of people coming in through the front. So then you end up leaving through the rear and it would be awkward to shout 'Thank you!' to the driver, over everyone's head.
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Damn i just heard one person doing that today first time in my life..
That's a lot of thanks. It's in a highly populated city.
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They don't protect you against the sun, unless you've got one with a special layer on it.
Sri Lankan sun burns should change your mind.
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Kangaroos littering the side of the road (they have about 4 neurones and all of then are suicidal)
To be fair to them, cutting across the path of a predator is pretty effective right up until the predator is a two-tonne death machine.
Walking down the street at night. In the UK and USA it was apparently just not a thing you did. Here I will walk home at 2am no worries, and tonnes of people walk home from the pub drunk enough to not always make it home and sometimes just pass out on the footpath. Never had a problem, never been mugged or similar in that situation, and after living in the UK and visiting the USA I can definitely say I would never do that there.
Still pretty dangerous for women, I've gotten plenty of harassment at night. But definitely far safer than the US.
People do talk about politics and religion here, but not with random people and not in public. If someone isn't interested you are generally going to back off quickly and leave it be. Religion and politics are mostly private and the few people who do talk tend to not be too intense about it. Certainly most don't become a registered Labor or Liberal party member with the group identity associated. It is much more loosely held and less culturally relevant.
I think it depends. People are still fairly likely to talk about what they think is a "fair go", and we've had some massive political protests lately. But it feels like each party has to meet in the middle a lot more, so stuff isn't as polarising, and things that are don't get talked about as openly.
Also in the US they have to register for a party when they register to vote. Feels like they heard about the concept of the secret ballot from us and then just failed completely on the execution.
Most states in the US don't require you to register for a party, although there are some that do.
Also, there are places in the US that are incredibly safe, but most of the big cities are not. But the US is very large and diverse.
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Depends on the bus type though. A lot of buses have a rear door, and sometimes it's kinda rude to go out through the front when there's a lot of people coming in through the front. So then you end up leaving through the rear and it would be awkward to shout 'Thank you!' to the driver, over everyone's head.
It was like this in the Bay Area when I lived there, like in Alameda county at least. People exited at the rear doors and gave a thank you to the driver. Became a habit for me.
I moved to Norway a few years ago and absent-mindedly said “Takk!” as I exited and I was quickly educated that, we don’t do that here. -
what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Congratulate everyone with someone else's birthday. Netherlands.
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Germany: Workers have rights, and can go to court easily if needed.
You're not alone in that, sincerely, a dutchie
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Depends on the bus type though. A lot of buses have a rear door, and sometimes it's kinda rude to go out through the front when there's a lot of people coming in through the front. So then you end up leaving through the rear and it would be awkward to shout 'Thank you!' to the driver, over everyone's head.
In Dublin, everyone would enter and leave via the front door. Only Covid changed that, and drivers started opening the second doors in the middle of the bus. Still, people are used to exit through the front, or shout their thank-yous from the other door.
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Switzerland has more guns per capita.
27.6 per 100 people vs US, which is 120.5. Where are you sourcing that from?
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Abundance of guns does not indicate that the country is more prone to violence, though. Switzerland has significantly laxer laws on who can own a gun than over 20 US states, EVERYONE is obligated to own a fully automatic SG550 from their military service, and a vibrant gun culture, and yet, no one's going around shooting people. It's a result of right wing extremism, decades of propaganda running on people's TVs, toxic right wing gun culture that is not countered by responsible gun culture from the left because liberals hate guns (and only because it became a problem for them after school shootings became common), and the refusal of government to address those issues. To add to that, white liberals literally take over ANY gun control talk and make it about their white feelings. That's exactly what's happening here with you. Despite minorities being the lead in support for gun control, we literally do NOT ever get to talk about our experiences. The only thing that matters in gun control discussions is white liberals putting their feelings and their feelings ONLY in the table, and advocating for assault weapon bans (which wouldn't matter), universal background checks (that already exist) and "common sense gun control" (which they change the definition every time to suit what they think). And liberal politicians also add fuel to the fire by EXCLUDING COPS FROM CERTAIN BANS and giving them more and more budget to "fight crime" every year.
There is no such thing as a "mass shooting problem" because it literally kills less people per year than GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. The media turns every single one of those into a spectacle and that's why the majority of people think it's such a problem. Police violence, on the other hand, is NOT statistically insignificant, and especially not for POC. After the assassination of the UHC CEO, the media literally turned every other time a CEO died into just a damn footnote, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT COPYCATS. The media can stop making those mass shootings a spectacle, but they won't, because IT GIVES THEM MONEY.
The gun control movement has a HUGE problem with white supremacy, including from people who THINK they're not being racist, and then proceed to support liberal politicians with tough on crime policies who give 12 gorillion dollars to the cops of big cities so they can purchase MRAPs, IFVs, fully automatic rifles and tons of other shit they don't fucking need. And the SCOTUS ruling doesn't matter, just get yourselves a SCOTUS that would rule cops have an obligation to help and investigate everything.
Please listen to us. Common sense cop control WILL solve all of this shit you mentioned without ever touching gun laws.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I'll try and do a better response later when I have some time.
In an ideal world we could replace SCOTUS members who, for example, lied under oath to congress. That would allow a lot of problems that seem impossible to solve to be pretty easily solved. I think the US is an example of a cascading system of measures to make it hard to undo the rot. For example: We need better rulings on cops, so we need a better supreme court, so we need to pack the court or get rid of the fascists on it, so we need a majority progressive congress, so we need campaign finance reform, so we need more people to vote, so we need laws against electioneering... I mean there are things that could be done that ate lynch pins for huge progress, but the system is certainly stacked against us. Not a reason to give up, but it explains a lot of the nihilism generally in our culture.
