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Guys it's called the Hero's Journey, Campbell wrote about it years and years ago -- Star Wars was in fact based on Campbell's synopsis of just about every hero legend.
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Are cars designed to kill? Is the sole purpose behind the ownership of a car to drive it over someone in the street? Are most traffic injuries and deaths intentional?
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The gun crusaders are just as likely to pull out their own biased sources as anyone. The above-linked CBS story, if you read it, champions an elderly woman for holding up a truck full of -gasp- trespassers (only one of who was even charged). Wow, that's great. But shouldn't you pull your gun on every stranger you see, just in case?

Gun control figures and gun-related murder rates are blank canvas for both sides to paint whatever picture they want. It's pointless to compare the numbers from two nations with the expectation that the people are the same. Consider that in the past two or three years with Toronto's over-sensationalized "gun problem", the total overall murder rate was still only in the double digits each year. That's less than 100 people murdered (in various ways) in an urban population of over 2.5 million. New York City's murder figure has been hovering around 600/year for the past 6 years -- 3.25 times as many people, killing each other roughly 6 times as often. What does this mean for the gun issue? Nothing. Americans are just more violent and more prone to murder than Canadians. Doubt it? The number of murders in New York City over the past 6 years is on par with the number of murders in the entire nation of Canada in 2005 -- not by proportion, a 1:1 comparison.

Liberal access to guns, controlled or not, just makes it easier for people who are likely to use them to kill to do so. Having a gun doesn't mean you'll just start killing people (or committing other crimes). Without guns flowing like water, Americans would pick up the slack and stab each other more, nut cases would take bombs to school, and postal workers would throw sarin gas balloons.
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People who clamour to post 'first' should be shot. All comments that contain "first" is more than 50% of the content should be treated as spam.

I remember when Internet was fun and good. Now it's teh intarwub, and it's not so good.
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This thing wouldn't survive a Canadian winter, and I have to wonder if it's heavy enough to withstand a strong wind or collision.

How about some 'green' cars that people outside of southern California can drive year-round?
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