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Stranger Danger and Guns ("What an idiot!")
The New York Times Sunday Review ^ | September 28, 2014 | Nicholas Kristof

Posted on 09/28/2014 1:44:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: roadcat

I’ll consider buying an iPad when we can remote detonate them.


41 posted on 09/28/2014 4:20:56 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nick Kristof in red shirt

42 posted on 09/28/2014 4:22:01 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: deoetdoctrinae

32,000 gun deaths - ??

BXZZZZTTT~! I am going to need to see source data on that...


43 posted on 09/28/2014 4:26:59 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: Larry Lucido

That only proved that his Wife is as Stupid as he is.

Wait, she is even stupider, she Married him.


44 posted on 09/28/2014 4:43:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
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To: Little Pig

Yep. But it’s much easier for lazy police departments, and more dramatic for politicians, to make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to be armed. If there was truly concern about public safety, guns would not be the issue, and the difficult job of cleaning up (or fencing off/s) the inner cities would commence.


45 posted on 09/28/2014 5:44:40 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: mrsmel

GMTA. He could even forgo the last meal you recommend and get on with the dying.


46 posted on 09/28/2014 5:48:12 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: GreyHoundSailor
I’ll consider buying an iPad when we can remote detonate them.

I can modify yours to do so. But there are easier and tinier devices to do so. That being said, the iPad could hold more explosive charge than a smaller device. However, the battery life would be shortened because half the battery storage would be replaced by the explosive charge. There are tradeoffs. /s

47 posted on 09/28/2014 5:49:06 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Zhang Fei

I wouldn’t qualify it as guts when they’re that stupid.


48 posted on 09/28/2014 5:55:38 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Thanks. Something was bothering me about this, because, as you say, this isn’t leftist SOP. That might explain it.


49 posted on 09/28/2014 5:57:28 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Norm Lenhart
And that cell was a treasure trove that could link people in ways they’d rather not be made public.

If he was someone who feared losing subversive content, he's using the wrong device. The great thing about the iPhone is that "i" in the name. Stuff goes up to the cloud, is stored there and is linked to other devices and friends, automatically. Information bounces everywhere. That is one reason I do not own an iPhone. I own a TracFone. Nothing goes to the cloud. There is no subscription linking me to the phone. I can dispose of it anytime and get another.

My daughters own iPhones. They take pictures of my grandkids, content automatically goes up to the cloud galleries, and automatically flows to my home computer. Great communication device. Not so good for subversives, with copies of the data everywhere. As I posted already, he could simply have used an app to remotely wipe all his data. Not worth risking your life to retrieve an empty hunk of plastic after wiping it (which can be reloaded from the cloud backups by the owner).

50 posted on 09/28/2014 6:46:31 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, the author is stupid, all right, but not because we live in a society with so many guns. He's stupid because he would go up to the home of someone who is probably a criminal without any backup except his wife and her phone to demand that his property be returned. If I were doing something so mindnumbingly stupid, I would not feel safe if I did not have a firearm on my person! And it certainly wouldn't have a trigger lock!
51 posted on 09/28/2014 7:30:33 PM PDT by lcms rev
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gun ownership continues to set record highs and the homicide rate continues to fall. Gun ownership up. Homicide rate down. End of argument Mr. Kristoff. so go eff yourself.


52 posted on 09/28/2014 11:01:35 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do I understand the author correctly?

He thinks there are too many guns and that the world would be better off if nobody had them?

But he stations his unarmed wife in a nearby car with a cell phone to call "the cavalry" if needed?

Was she going to call the liberal, UNARMED cavalry, or the one full of good guys with guns?

The guy had absolutely no evidence that the person who had his phone was armed or violent, and yet he had made a plan for an armed response in case of sudden need. It seems to me that he has answered his own question as to why the good guys should have guns. And why criminals will never cease to be a danger to the law-abiding.

53 posted on 09/28/2014 11:40:08 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: roadcat

Maybe. It’s possible. But I have an extremely hard time believing that iphones from a hard left company in possession of the ‘elite’ don’t have their own Apple approved and housed ‘JournO-List” areas on the cloud and a different set of options onboard than your kids commercial phone.

I mean there are several govt issued versions for security purposes. You don’t think their pet propogandists have some?


54 posted on 09/29/2014 12:17:58 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Your posts about Apple are so delusional, I don’t know where to begin. Hard left company? Pet “propogandists” (Apple spellcheckers automatically flag misspellings so I quoted your word)? Please state sources for your statements, otherwise refrain from inhaling the pot.


55 posted on 09/29/2014 12:31:52 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

This is a joke right? I’d hate to think that someone on FR isn’t aware of all the hard left causes that Apple has backed since day one.

Maybe you are just one of the fanboys. Maybe you are just offended when someone disses the brand you ride for. I dunno. But Apple’s connection to hard leftism are long, broad and well known to most everyone here. That’s not even arguable.

Ask Siri to look it up for you.


56 posted on 09/29/2014 1:58:52 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Dozens of high-profile companies like Microsoft are more left of Apple. Apple is moderate in comparison to Microsoft. Maybe you are a Microsoft fanboy, but should think about all the leftist causes they support. Like I said, post sources for your comments. Otherwise, it’s all rants.


57 posted on 09/29/2014 11:09:03 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Brother Cracker

So was the guy with spear the one who had his I-phone?


58 posted on 09/29/2014 11:20:15 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: Norm Lenhart

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2012/07/02/the-ten-companies-making-the-biggest-political-donations/2/

Microsoft among the top ten companies making the largest political donations, in their case millions mostly to leftists.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1688616/posts

A list of Fortune 100 companies funding leftist liberal causes. Note that Apple is not among them. Hopefully you don’t do business with Ford, Aetna, Albertsons, AT&T, B of A, Cisco, GM, Home Depot, Chase, MetLife, Pepsi, WalMart etc., otherwise you are a hypocrite.


59 posted on 09/29/2014 11:27:42 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Read the article. He was partially correct. Quote “Full of myself, I posted about the adventure on social media” LOL

Then read the responses on Facebook. It didn't take long for the sheeple to turn it around to an Evil white male privilege issue.

I have visions of an Eloi walking up to the Morlock monument and banging on the door yelling “I want Weena back”
The door opens and the Morlock grins and says “Cool, desert yum”

60 posted on 09/29/2014 11:32:17 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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