Re: DOJ is correct that Apple iPhone is far less secure than Android when RCS messaging is involved

On 4/18/24 3:46 PM, 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.

Black swan event.  Other ways of mass killing that don't involve guns. Some think that the Islamist anti-Westerners have already won just because they made us change the way we live, travel etc.

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", ...  :-\

The Swiss and possibly the Israelis are required to own guns.  That's not the problem.  I think we USE seatbelts most of the time.  And if you mean Trump, there's a lot to be said about having a loose cannon for a president.  A little less trouble in the world during his tenure, wouldn't you say?  And we've simplified spelling in order to conserve ink, space and pixels.  A GOOD thing!

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.

 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.
 You've got junior school kids "solving" their arguments by shooting
people. The country needs to obtain some form of common sense.

Far fewer mass shootings by loonies than one-on-one or gang squabbles. If it weren't for the innocent bystanders, the gang squabbles might actually be a plus.
Mainly, I think our elected officials are too stupid or venal to be allowed to even think about changing the Constitution.
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Cheers, Bev
     "...so she told me it was either her or the ham radio, over."