Looking for a good deal on an avy beacon and skins . Any advice on either would be greatly appreciated , already signed up for my Avy 1 course . <| sep |> If you have a gun then you have a means of harming people if you so choose . A gun is a weapon that can be hard to defend against . On the other hand , a Muslim can . well . practice their religion . <| sep |> Go to Michigan and live there a couple weeks . You ' ll swear you ' re in a colder version of Mississippi . Credentials Lived there for 31 years . <| sep |> This is so biased it should be criminal . There are no false majorities . In a system where there are 338 seats representing 338 districts when a party earns 170 its a majority not a false majority . It means more than half the districts decided to elect members or a particular party . It happens most but not all the time . I hate the current government but they do not have a false majority . Because I voted for another party my vote should never impact any other riding but my own those in some other riding , their votes , should never impact my riding . National popular vote is a meaningless statistics . We have 338 mutually exclusive elections on election day . There are no wasted votes . If you vote for a losting candidate it does not equate to wasted vote . It simply means your prefered candidate lost . The vote you cast is actually really important and the opposite of waste . It informs the parties and candidates in your riding not just how much support they have but how much they don ' t and how much the competing candidate and parties have . This informs how to proceed the next election . It also informs at a national level because parties are better informed on how to mobilize put extra effort where warranted and where not to bother with the effort both financially and with manpower because the message is the party or candidate doesn ' t reflect the will of that community . YOUR VOTE IS NEVER WASTED you narcissist . To claim such is a propaganda in favour of the reform crowd . A word on Strategic VotingThis is neither negative nor positive but is framed in this image as something to avoid . How an individual votes , is a private affair , and how they chose to vote , employing some strategy is totally up to them . I don ' t do it and don ' t understand why people do it I vote for my candidate , not against a national party . Its choice and if you want to be an idiot strategic with a negative attitude that ' s fine with me and it should be fine with everyone . Negative CampaigningThere is no system that avoids this , its a choice made too often but its never mandatory and no system avoids it . GerrymanderingWe have the Electoral District Boundary Readjustment Act that specifically rules out gerrymandering . It sets out that no party member , no MP , MLA , nor Senators is to be involved in the independent committees set up to decide how votes are counted . Gerrymandering is not something that is FPTP specific nor part of any particular voting system . In fact , the word gerrymandering can be applied to the people who want to change the system to favour certain parties and ideologies . Gerrymandering in this context is everything that is not status quo . And further to the misinformation in this very biased image which is presented as if its not biased and instead informational , our current system is not necessarily majority rules . In each district a plurality rules which in some cases is a majority . If you want to manufacture a majority out of a plurality by using some kind of ranked runoff system fine , but its expense and time that amount to changing the winner a fraction of the instances . Ya ' ll need to wake up and realize our democratic deficit is not in the system that has seen 7 different official opposition parties in the last 3 decades , national parties come and go , that has produced majorities and minorities , that has had independents hold seats and in the case of Chuck Cadman been responsible for groundbreaking legislation , no no no our deficit is the unelected Senate that is not accountable to anyone . Is there another bicameral democracy in the world where one of the chambers in not elected ? Our regional representative second chamber is not even that regional , not anything like our democratic cousins in Australia , where their multiseat constituent Senate seats are elected using PR and each state has equal representation NO our problem is not our functional and representative House of Commons , its our shameful Senate people ! Don ' t let these reform idiots who want what is best for them and their misguided views fool you . There is real change needed and you are being distracted by something that needs NO CHANGE . Don ' t fall for Oprah cult like bullshit there is no substantive argument to change how we vote for our functional House of Commons there are substantive arguments for change in our truly broken Senate .