Canadians Avoiding US due to Gun Violence

Ivylog wrote:
I remember when it took $1.60 CA to buy $1 US... did that stop you from coming south? In 2010 the rate was much the same as today, did that stop you from coming? Do you really think being on par was going to last? Not sure how a 25% difference from a all time high equals costing twice as much.

If you use the FBI definition of mass shootings then France has had more gun related injuries this year than the US has had in the last 7 years. I would stop going to France before stopping to come here.

The 30,000/year gun deaths in the US you hear about is close to the 33,000 vehicle deaths/year BUT 21,000 of the gun are suicides. I guess the Canadian vehicle deaths would be less if you had guns to commit suicide.

I found this video interesting on Gun nation US.

This is closest to the fact of not travelling south. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with safety. Those of us who have been spending winters in the U.S. for years, have done so when the dollar was as low as .66 cents relative to the greenback.

So what we might be seeing now is those who jumped into the RV experience when the dollar was close to par and now decide they cannot afford it. ERGO they should not have gambled unwisely in the first place on the tarsands boosted Canadian economy staying that way when oil based economies have being doing the pendulum thingy for over a hundred years or more.

Everyone with a scintilla of grey matter would never attempt suggesting Mexico being safer than the U.S.. That dog just won't hunt.

They're going to Mexico because it's cheaper and that's why you'll see so many rigs out of Quebec travelling all that way diagonally across the "unsafe" U.S. to get there.