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phones are more expensive
And with the weird contracts, harder to buy.
The phone was by far the easiest: pick it up, pay, walk out.
The guns were a lot harder. Background check had to clear, the waiting period had to pass. Two trips to the store.
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Yes, I know. Just pointing out the typical mislabeling that always happens... kind of surprised they didn't call it a Glock.
You're seriously criticizing an emergency release? It was posted as an emergency and they get the point across, do we really need the nit-picking?
Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed). I still would like to understand few things. Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful an…
Not american here so this is just a supposition. I think the main issue with it is related to the constitution. While the idea as far as I understand, was for citizens to bear arms and form a militia to protect against a foreign power, many of the people that defend the right to bear arms do so based on a limited knowledge of it (i.e.: 'The right to bear arms is in the constitution' but have no idea what comes next).…
That may be an incorrect understanding, but I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people are thinking when their guns get "taken away". You can see why new gun control laws might be alarming if you have this attitude.
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But I DO have to give up the right to travel without being strip-searched. A nation of paradoxes.
On a commercial airliner.. To my knowledge private planes don't have crazy restrictions or invasive searches. Indeed, you don't have to fly at all.
Its all about rights - does liberty include travel on public conveyance? Most of us would think Yes.
Could it be a stunt by a particularly intuitive student to prevent a shooting incident by creating a false alarm, to get everyone to tighten up security, thus reducing the probability of an actual shooter event really happening? Shooters are probably smart enough to pick their targets, and they would be unwise to pick one that's on edge from a recent incident.
If it is a stunt, 'intuitive' is the last way I would describe it.
https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice/status/30533598012521267...