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Subject: Re: DOJ is correct that Apple iPhone is far less secure than Android
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:02:40 -0400
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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?