Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anonymous 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: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:02:40 -0400 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <6m47fkxdng.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:02:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="c4af4a3027e8317d29ea238d8aa6bb2f616aa3fc"; logging-data="1526296"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4201 Lines: 72 Your Name wrote: > On 2024-04-18 19:13:09 +0000, The Real Bev said: > >> On 4/18/24 2:11 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> On 2024-04-18 08:20, The Real Bev wrote: >>>> On 4/17/24 10:18 AM, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2024-04-17 10:05, The Real Bev wrote: >>>>>> On 4/15/24 11:48 PM, Chris wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Pre-empirically carrying a gun is not "self-defence". Its weakness. >>>>>>> Billions of people are quite capable of not becoming a victim without >>>>>>> needing guns for "self-defence". >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, screaming I AM NOT A VICTIM at the thug with a knife will >>>> >>>>>> definitely send him on his way abashed and save Granny from being >>>> >>>>>> harmed. Or perhaps you were thinking of the umbrella with the >>>> >>>>>> sharpened tip? >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>>> Given that this is true, how do we best protect ourselves when law >> >>>>>> enforcement is too far away to be protective? >>>> The same way as other countries do: by banning weapons. You do not let >>> violent people easy access to weapons. >> >> Like Mexico... >> >> Knives, rebar, baseball bats, tennis rackets, 2x4s... > > With the possible exception of the cars, all of those personal 'weapons' are > impossible to use to kill and injure lots of people in a short space of time ... > unlike a moron with a (semi)automatic gun spraying bullets around. Mexico has fierce gun laws, and also has plenty of instances of morons "spraying bullets around." >>>> 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? >>>> Same as in any modern and evolved country. >> >> Bend over and smile? >> >> She was sitting in her car in a restaurant parking lot at 8:30 at night in a >> "safe" neighborhood.  He jumped into her car.  Perhaps she should have locked >> her doors, but that's alien behavior here. > > A lot of common sense things are alien behaviour in America: owning guns, not > wearing seatbelts, electing lunatics as the President, not knowing how to spell > the words like "colour" or "aluminium", ...  :-\ > > > > >> If someone threatens you with ANY weapon they have forfeited their right to >> decent treatment.  Perhaps no weapon is required if they are physically >> threatening.  We should all be allowed to protect our own lives.  Period. >> >> -- Cheers, Bev >>     "People are too stupid to realize they are." >>                               --JoHn DoH KeLm > > The number of people who successfully "protect their own lives" by owning a gun > is FAR FAR FAR outweighed by the number of innocent people killed or seriuously > injured by a looney with a gun. No it's not. > You've got junior school kids "solving" their arguments by shooting people. The > country needs to obtain some form of common sense. Are these kids suburban whites?