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FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone

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Re: FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone

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I can't tell whether you're being ironic or not. If you're suggesting hypocrisy for not proposing to ban those, consider their legitimate use. In restricting use of a potential weapon, you have to weigh the cost of the restriction. Restricting or banning truck rentals has a different effect on society than restricting or banning assault weapons, for example, so you approach them differently. --------- Or for the real…

> Restricting or banning truck rentals has a different effect on society than restricting or banning assault weapons, for example, so you approach them differently. Yep! You can ban truck rentals with little to no side effects, while banning gun ownership has a history of leading to genocide. Or is that not the comparison you'd make? > Or for the really facetious answer, here's a nice post detailing not quite the tru…

>banning gun ownership has a history of leading to genocide

Basically every other developed country has stricter laws than the US (which is what we're talking about, not full bans). It's ridiculous to suggest those lead to genocides.

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Yes, if iCloud backups are enabled, Apple does then have the keys required to decrypt backed-up iMessage messages.

That seems to completely defeat the point of it being end to end encrypted in the first place.

That's the whole joke. Apple pushes E2E in advertising but fails to mention how by default it's all """backed up""" in their cloud where they hold the keys. It's ridiculous.

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This list gives me shivers...is the USA a scary, uncivilized country?

Yes, and it always has been. The murder rate per capita in the US has consistently been 5-10x higher than in Europe for the entire 20th century. Long before gun control, social safety nets, the drug war, or any other difference you might want to blame. The US is a low cohesion, high violence society.

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It is politically more feasible to ban encryption in the US than it is to ban guns (or even significantly restrict them). Wait, I'm wrong. Even essentially insignificant changes to gun laws at the federal level are harder than banning crypto.

Can you please elaborate on why guns are so sacred in the US? Is it for cultural/historical reasons?

So the us doesn't end up like countries such as Romania, where the government can easily subdue its population with a simple good beating. It’s harder to subdue an armed population.

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...banning 100-round barrels... Not sure if you're joking there -- maybe you meant magazines? Like so many other gun regulation ideas, it seems superficially reasonable based on "danger" but it's almost never the case that items like that contributed measurably to gun deaths. They don't need to be banned -- they are niche items. Mass shooters who have access to them rarely use them. They rarely use 40 or 50 round mag…

>Indeed, people rarely purchase magazines larger than the standard 30 rounds. 30 rounds is standard? That's terrifying. Anecdata but the NZ shooter had large clips (many dual large clips taped together in fact), and Las Vegas shooter had some crazy "niche" shit. If it's so niche that nobody cares then what's the harm in restricting things like that? People don't need 40 round magazines to shoot targets. They don't ev…

It isn’t compatible with basic principles of liberal government to offer “What’s the harm?” as the basis for a restriction or policy. There needs to be a clear and just basis for government action, and a commitment to repealing or abolishing policies that do not prove to be worthwhile.

The same thing goes for asking “Why do you need that?” and if people don’t have a reason you like, taking that as a basis for restriction. In a free society, the people don’t need a reason — we can do what we like. It’s the government that needs a reason. We should be questioning proposed policies, with an eye to the public benefit, not because of any love of guns, but merely out of a basic requirement for government accountability.

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