>"Little old lady bashed in home invasion" style stories slot nicely into >the contemporary dumbed-down, Western media sound-bite fuelled >"understanding" of today's society that most fat, lazy and increasingly >stupid Westerners feel they have of "how the world works", thus >assisting >morons like Tomas L. Byrnes to confidently arrive at chronically stupid >assessments of what will make things "better" or "safer", but all that >shit has very little to do with what's really going down. > > Of course, you, Mr. Nick Fitzgerald, are the oracle of all that is true in the matters of personal and physical security. Your extensive, self vetted, knowledge of matters Cyber makes you eminently qualified to hold forth on all matters related to security, both on, and off, net.
I know, I shouldn't feed the troll. I'm only providing fodder for a grandiloquent, bombastic, self important, ignoramus who is so poorly informed that they are unaware of the extensive statistical studies conducted at the University of Chicago on the matter of how concealed carry by the law abiding reduces violent crime. Continue in your ignorance, and rely on the police force of the UK, who seem to have forgotten basic things like parliamentary privilege. You're seeing first hand why the founders of the US felt it necessary that we have the fourth box, cartridge, available to defend liberty if Soap, Ballot, and Jury fail. I'm not just talking about home invasion, but the ability to defend oneself, and others, in public. The UK has a much higher violent crime rate than the US. 2300/100,000 people versus 469.2/100,000, in the years for which stats are available, 2006 and 2005 respectively, and that doesn't include the culture of violence in secondary schools. I'll take a higher murder rate for not having to live in fear of bands of roaming thugs in every town. Since your Google-fu appears lacking, let me provide some of the evidence for my positions above: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0506.html http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/RTCResearch.html http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2007/01/crime-in-uk-versus-crime-in-us.html Even your own newspapers are beginning to recognize the futility of gun control, and the benefits of law abiding carry. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article5299010.ece Perhaps you're shilling for the boot boys of the UK who prefer it that little old ladies are armed with nothing more than a handbag, and want to expand their Football hooliganism across the pond. Maybe I should speak to you in language you seem likely to understand: Listen ya bleeding eejit: Unless you have a gun, some gang of knackers are gonna burst ya, and there's sweet feck all you can do about it. That's why owning, and carryin, one is a good idea. BTW: I go by Tom, although perhaps you may be able to pronounce my real name correctly, since I was born, and raised in Ireland. Having grown up under the all-encompassing state that does nothing to adequately provide for, or protect, the citizenry, I opted for the one country where we, the people, are sovereign. I served 13 years in the US Army, and so know a bit about physical, as well as virtual, security. Go find someone of your own intellect to spar with, I'm sure there are many down the pub. >Regards, > >Nick FitzGerald > > >_______________________________________________ >Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
