Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: DOJ is correct that Apple iPhone is far less secure than Android when RCS messaging is involved Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:15:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="884bfce603d41a36906db8651ea9d4f4"; logging-data="2634012"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/VFZYmulAHtBjMiJilnNfdwQCp2GCok7Y=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NdQCXH3nuLPW5+wTce69LomsZQI= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3305 On 2024-04-18 06:23, Andrew wrote: > The Real Bev wrote on Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:20:37 -0700 : > >>> You still haven't explained why the US has so many more deaths than >>> other countries similar to it. >> >> I have no idea why. Do you? Perhaps we are just violent people. > > Whoever said that the US is "more violent" is an idiot as many countries > have far more violence but even so, the purpose of guns being in the > constitution is a fundamental right based on keeping the government honest. > >> Given that this is true, how do we best protect ourselves when law >> enforcement is too far away to be protective? > > Very few countries, and perhaps almost none to none, have the demographic > mix of peoples and cultures that the USA has. Even fewer have the size. > > Comparing straight numbers to those of puny places like New Zealand, > Australia, Canada or England, for example, to the USA is ridiculous, where > the sizes and demographics are completely different (unless normalized). Look at the population DENSITIES, dimwit. Canada is large, but lots of it is next to uninhabited. Canada is MORE urban than the US. > >> A few nights ago a guy pulled a knife on a woman, forced her to drive to >> a different location and raped her. This happened a few blocks away. >> What should she have done? > > The fundamental right of a gun in the USA is not related to protection from > individuals, but to the fundamental nature of a government of the people.