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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A Canadian man visiting Wisconsin for a golf trip was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting while walking back to his hotel, according to multiple local reports.

Police found the victim, Giovanni Michael “Mike” Robinson, 32, suffering from a gunshot wound around 12:08 a.m. local time on Wednesday in Sheboygan Falls, according to local police. Despite life-saving measures and medical attention, Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sources tell Global News that Robinson is originally from the town of Stouffville, Ont., and was a former player in the Ontario Hockey League.

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[-] pageflight@piefed.social 164 points 1 week ago

That's horrible.

Also, why would anyone visit the US at this point?

[-] baines@lemmy.cafe 52 points 1 week ago
[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

No one wants to talk about golfer on golfer violence.

[-] baines@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago

bringing a hole in one to new levels

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

BYO casing + powder but the slug is provided free and with fast delivery.

[-] sucius@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago
[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Yes. What a shithole country.

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago

I’d personally like to leave the US but nobody wants someone with no money and no degree.

[-] valek879@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, three Masters degrees and I still can't get call back.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

3 master’s degrees is a red flag. It tells the employer you don’t really know what you want to do with life.

Try just putting only one of the degrees on your resume when you apply (the one most pertinent to the job). Same goes for past experience: don’t list everything, only list what is relevant.

Employers these days can get hundreds or even thousands of applications to a job posting. They filter these down to a manageable number with AI looking for keywords. Then they look through the remaining pile by hand to try to get down to just a few they can interview.

It’s easy to mess up a resume in a way that kills your chances of getting a job. One of the sure fire ways to do that is to clutter up your resume with irrelevant (to the job) experience or education.

[-] valek879@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the advice! I'll try to and edit things and see if it helps!

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

To get shot. Very exciting.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 57 points 1 week ago

I just assumed cops shot him but turns out, we don't know if it were cops or not.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

And they wonder why nobody travels to the US anymore.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It's kinda weird. A few years ago, for work, I had to travel to Tchad. I was somewhat worried, but since I was staying in the capital and not straying away, I didn't hesitate much.

I've always been worried to travel to the US. Back then it was mostly about TSA and the weird "are you a terrorist?" thing, but it did change slightly to "I'm not sure I'll be able to come back in one piece". Not a great look.

[-] oxysis 45 points 1 week ago

And that kids, is why we don’t go to Sheboygan

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

*USA

Fixed that for you, it's all like that.

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

in Wisconsin there used to be a popular morning radio segment called "who's more sheboygan" making fun of how backwards and redneck the area was. sheboygan has always had a reputation as the Florida of Wisconsin.

so yes, fair. America bad. but also here's a little nugget of context to go with that.

[-] oxysis 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you for doing the explaining for me

[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago

i live “in the area” and everyone around me is pretty shaken up. it’s been a while since the county had a random murder. what a terrible thing to happen.

[-] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I bet nobody in your county sees a problem with guns either.

Believe it or not, there are some of us out here in the woods that still rely on firearms as a part of our daily lives to both put food on the table and protect against dangerous animals in the area (mainly black bears around me).

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Black Bears are a bad example to make your point. Brown Bears… now you have a problem.

Most black bears aren’t aggressive unless you get near their cubs, and they won’t get near you on purpose.

Brown bears will fuck you up for fun.

Yup, black bears are lower risks than browns, and attacks rarely end with fatalities. That doesn't mean I wanna fistfight a bear because it felt like starting something while I'm alone in the woods miles from help.

[-] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Admittedly I hadn’t thought of that, but I still believe there are alternative routes that could be explored to resolve those issues. Even in your part of the world I don’t believe you need to have 75 pounds of tannerite and a 100 round drum mag for your AR15 to combat the everyday bear.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

but what if that bear is armed or transsexual?

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[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Still doesn't change the fact that you have insane gun laws.

The world is not like the US when it comes to gun deaths.

Places like Switzerland have more guns per capita and fewer gun deaths than the US.

Why is that?

I love how you try and justify 50k gun deaths (a lot of them being children) by saying you hunt.

Typical American.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

some of us out here in the woods that still rely on firearms as a part of our daily lives to both put food on the table and protect against dangerous animals in the area (mainly black bears around me).

I love how you try and justify 50k gun deaths (a lot of them being children) by saying you hunt.

🤦‍♂️

Dude just defended his use of firearms. Something which is also legal in Canada and other nations.

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America doesn't have insane gun laws. We have outdated gun laws that are in need of some common sense reforms, which is a monumentally difficult task due to gun ownership being baked into our country from the founding. The only way to change this is through a constitutional amendment, which would need to be approved by 38 or more states, and more than half our lands are still mostly undeveloped rural areas where guns are very much still a necessity to live there.

The world is not like the US period. What works for the world won't necessarily work for America.

Switzerland has 28 privately owned guns for every 100 residents.

America has 120 privately owned guns for every 100 residents.

Please explain how 28 is more than 120? Must be counting with that metric system I'm to American to understand.

I'm no expert on the subject, but if I were to venture a gues as to why that is, I'd probably point to Switzerland's population being just 9 million while America's is over 340 million as a starting point.

I'm not trying to justify any gun deaths, especially of children, because I hunt. Those are your words, and I'd thank you to not put them in my mouth. What I said is there's still parts of this country that people need guns for food and protection from dangerous animals.

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[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

you wouldn't be too far off from the truth lol. our county is conservative but the city proper is liberal. doesn't matter when the smaller towns surrounding the city are Red.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Was probably targeted. Random drive bys aren't a thing outside of specific cities but it's a time honored way to wack a dude.

Random drive bys have never been much of a thing. They usually target a rival gang hangout hoping to get a gang member, or often just to stir up fear. But yeah, seems this guy pissed someone off.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I've heard of hitting "random" houses as initiation but they're almost always not random if you look more than 5 seconds.

[-] Saryn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that they mistook him for someone else.

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[-] jownz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Who did it and why? Continue to be "shaken up" until you can tell us that.

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[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago

Just like you wouldn't do a trip to North Korea or some war-torn country, you shouldn't do a trip to USA in 2025. The country is currently in deep crisis with a rogue regime consisting of neo-nazi zealots & grifters and a big chunk of the population brainwashed by regime-supported propaganda on national TV (Fox News) and other random bullsh!t on proprietary social media, also radicalizing parts of the population. Plus they can all own guns legally. It's neither a safe nor sane country currently. Sorry for the decent Americans out there but your situation is really bad and I don't think you can turn this around non-violently anymore.

[-] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I would feel safer travelling to North Korea than USA.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I don't think your risk assessment is very good.

I wouldn't go to the US either right now. But, tens of millions of people have visited. A few hundred of those tens of millions have had incredibly bad experiences where they were locked up and then deported. Each one of those stories makes the news because it's so shocking. It's a few hundred people up from roughly zero.

North Korea only gets a few thousand western tourists each year, but cases like Otto Warmbier and Jeffrey Edward Fowle's are pretty common.

[-] Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There needs to be a genuine travel warning against coming to the us

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Several countries already have them, Canada won't extradite queer people back to the US.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

There is from the Canadian Association of University Teachers. Since the summer.

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[-] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

There is no need to come to America. Nothing good lies in this direction.

[-] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

You know, Canada should build some golf courses so people won't have to travel down south to scratch that golf itch.

[-] reddifuge@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Canada is 4th for most golf courses per capita.

Usa is 10th

Nothing more American than misinformation.

It's a joke, please don't ban me. :<

[-] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What!? Canada has golf courses? Well then why did this asshat travel to the Nazi States of America when he could have just stayed home?

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[-] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are worse ways to go there...

[-] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

As a former Wisconsinite, I’m not at all surprised.

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