Tewder
Senior Member
I wouldn't feel too bad, really.
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He was shown on the news handing out business cards and "Rob Ford For Mayor" fridge magnets to shell-shocked food service workers. They even closed the segment noting what Ford had done during his visit and held up both the magnet and business card. This man continues to boggle my mind, I mean you can't write this stuff.
My, my. The alleged shooter was employed part time by the city of Toronto despite a rap sheet with drugs and sexual misconduct. Huh? No background check in a parks job? Who is responsible for that? Believe me, in the States, we have many stupid hiring mistakes. Like Joe Paterno's assistant. But this impresses me. I know the program this guy was in was supposed to help people avoid a life of crime, but wouldn't raking lawns or something be more suitable? Work experience is work experience.
Welcome to our lunacy!
The stats show gun violence is decreasing.
So I'm reading that to mean lots of bullets flying around, relatively few finding a target. I wonder what the stats say about WHY people are shooting guns. Turf wars? Personal conflicts? Street cred?
Relatively few? I wouldn't call 143 shooting victims in 2012 to date "relatively few".
143 "victims". And how many fatalities? My impression is that the shootings to fatalities ratio is very high. Like you have people closing their eyes and pulling the trigger like total amateurs.