From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #135 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, January 28 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 135 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: (NJC) Canada and the US (was Lyrics) [LC Stanley Subject: Re: (NJC) Canada and the US (was Lyrics) Hi Lori, I too feel safer in Canada, so much so that I made sure of my Canadian citizenship a few years ago since I've lived longer in the USA than in Canada. In 2007, the Geneva Graduate Institute ranked 178 countries as to the number of guns per 100 residents. The USA got #1 with having the most guns per 100 residents, which was not surprising (88.8%!!!). What did surprise me is that Canada was #13 and Mexico #42. Got me thinking, if a lower number of guns per people was safer, then Mexico should be safer than Canada. I've always had the opinion that Canada is safer than Mexico. Still do. Love, Laura ________________________________ From: Lori Renee Fye To: joni@smoe.org; Catherine McKay Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:26 PM Subject: (NJC) Canada and the US (was Lyrics) Catherine wrote: > I can kind of empathize with that. I remember > going to the US on family vacations as a child > and just thinking Americans were a lot like us. > As an adult going there, I had a completely > different feeling. You guys scare the crap out of me! You should be scared. Americans, at least the ones who are clinging so desperately to their guns, are flat out nuts. It's a very violent society. There is something very wrong with a "civilized" country in which more than 1,100 people have been shot to death since the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that occurred on December 14 (just 44 days ago). Eleven hundred people is the population of a small town. I left the US in mid-March of last year with the intention of moving to Holland for three months. I ended up living in Germany for eight months, and now I am in Wales. I have no desire anymore to return to the US. I have never been a person who is easily frightened, but the thought of returning to the US frightens me. In 1972, when I was 14 years old, my dad, mom, two younger brothers and I went to Canada for the first time. As soon as we crossed the border I felt instantly safer and more at peace. To this day I can't explain why I felt that way at that time, at that age, but I did. I still feel that way when I cross the border into Canada. I feel even more safe across "The Pond" in Wales. Lori ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #135 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------