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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:19 PM
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Do Canadian secular schools have a lot of shootings?
I would think not. I would also think that they don't have a lot of prayer or spankings.

Check out this thinkprogress.org link to learn otherwise from the knuckledraggers.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/23/afa-blames-school-shootings-on-lack-of-prayer-spankings/
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:21 PM
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1. Blame Everything Except Madmen With Guns, Eh?
That's mighty Christian of them.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:23 PM
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2. Marc Lépine
Edited on Mon Apr-23-07 12:34 PM by devilgrrl
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:25 PM
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3. There was one a couple of years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting

The killer tried to claim that the Megadeth song "A Tout Le Monde". Dave Mustaine was naturally outraged by this, and is re-releasing a new version of A Tout Le Monde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tout_Le_Monde
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:27 PM
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4. I just watched that-I didn't know that you couldn't pray in school
or that you could take a Bible if you wanted to

or that beating your kid or someone else doing it would help the kids that think no one loves them

What IF those aborted fetuses had been armed?
Condoms-insert joke here about getting a round back in the barrel

Pornography-what like the male pro type being a regular guest at the White House or the porn actress invited to a Republican fundraiser?? and all the porn money flowing into Republican coffers???

I could go on.

What a piece of ....work that video is.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:29 PM
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5. There've been several school shootings in Canada...
in the last few years.

Not that it's because of the absense of prayer.
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Dave From Canada Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:44 PM
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6. Canadian secular schools as well as Canadian religious schools, don't tend to have many
shootings. However, there have been some instances, and gun violence in general, especially in Toronto has been increasing at a significant rate.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/dawson-college/

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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:48 PM
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7. There have been shootings here, as there......
Generally, we have fewer of them and fewer fatalities.

The common thread in all these shootings seems to be that the shooter is usually a loner, and has usually been embarassed and bullied for most of his school life.

Rock and roll has less to do with this shit than religiosity and societal shaming do.

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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-23-07 12:50 PM
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8. I thought it was fewer shooting incidents. There were a crapload
Edited on Mon Apr-23-07 12:50 PM by valerief
in the U.S. in the nineties, although, unlike Canada, I don't think ours resulted in stricter gun control laws.

edited for punctuation
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