Mugger Arrested After Victim Spots Him On Facebook's 'People You May Know' (bgr.com) 235
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BGR: In a somewhat bizarre story which proves that truth is often stranger than fiction, a serial mugger in England was arrested after one of his victims spotted him under Facebook's 'People you may know' section.Originally reported by the BBC, 21-year old Omar Famuyide had a long history of theft, muggings and armed robberies to his name. Not too long ago, Famuyide brandished a knife and stole a car.
Flash forward a bit, and the victim of said car robbery was recently shocked to see Famuyide's face pop up as a suggested friend he might want to add on Facebook. The victim promptly called the police who quickly managed to tie him to a large number of other violent crimes. By the time the dust settled and the full extent of Famuyide's criminal rampage was revealed, Famuyide was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
His Facebook profile ultimately led to charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and possessing a firearm.
Flash forward a bit, and the victim of said car robbery was recently shocked to see Famuyide's face pop up as a suggested friend he might want to add on Facebook. The victim promptly called the police who quickly managed to tie him to a large number of other violent crimes. By the time the dust settled and the full extent of Famuyide's criminal rampage was revealed, Famuyide was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
His Facebook profile ultimately led to charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and possessing a firearm.
Why wonder? (Score:5, Interesting)
...the victim of said car robbery was recently shocked to see Famuyide's face pop up as a suggested friend he might want to add on Facebook
Why would the victim be shocked? They shared the same car so they must be friends, right?
BZZZ! An example of "strawman" (Score:2)
Certainly not "must" — but "might", which the write-up actually attributes to Facebook, is valid.
Now, why would you attack a strawman [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]?
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Especially, if the people programming the said datamining routinely substitute "might" for "must", "likely" for "very likely", and so on themselves.
FB Search (Score:5, Insightful)
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging.
FB saw one person searching out another and suggested the pairing to the victim.
With only 50 FB friends and a hidden profile, FB gives me suggestions all of the time.
Often, the suggestions only make sense if the suggested friend had tried searching for me on FB.
FB is a panopticon (Score:5, Informative)
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging.
And this is the reality. You can't do anything on Facebook (even searches) without being caught in one of their algorithms to increase their profit (in this case, by increasing interconnectedness).
What's even more scary is that Facebook is now tracking and advertising to you when they see you outside of Facebook [1]. This combined with the fact that Facebook trackers are everywhere infested on most sites, means without some means of being ignored [2], you could be tracked even if you didn't visit FB.
Paranoia: it's healthy now.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/5... [theverge.com]
[2/CH] https://chrome.google.com/webs... [google.com]
[2/FF] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
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They've been doing that for close to a decade. The non-technical press has just finally figured it out. It's the main reason I used extensions like noscript, cookiesafe, and ghostery, and now browse in incognito mode all the time. Every 'f' icon on a web page is a little eyeball tracking what pages you're visiting.
I'm sorry if you're just learning this now. Facebook probably already k
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What's even more scary is that Facebook is now tracking and advertising to you when they see you outside of Facebook [1]. This combined with the fact that Facebook trackers are everywhere infested on most sites, means without some means of being ignored [2], you could be tracked even if you didn't visit FB.
Two things:
a) This is nothing new and Facebook has been doing this for several years.
b) How does being tracked by Facebook if you don't visit Facebook (and thus don't log in) make this any more scary than every other advertisement company since the inception of the internet?
Paranoia is just as unhealthy now as it's always been. People just think the old is new and are afraid of the new.
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Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger are must-haves. NoScript/Scriptsafe if you're really paranoid.
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Facebook will suggest people based on physical proximity, interests, schools, and other stuff that has nothing to do with searching anything other than the standard profile data.
I just think it's funny how my ex reacts every time I pop up as a suggested friend. :-)
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and other stuff
Like your phone contact list which is expressly shared with Facebook when you install the Messenger app.
Facebook take a lot more than the standard profile data.
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I suspect the Facebook app, or third party apps, of skimming phone contacts and uploading them to Facebook.
If so then this is just plain evil on FB's part.
OTOH with my original RAZR V3 I am safe from FB scanning my phone contacts.
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of skimming phone contacts and uploading them to Facebook
You don't need to suspect this. They flat out do it and are fully up front about it. The sync contact features is advertised as merging your phone contact list with Facebook, although that functionality is now part of Facebook Messenger and not Facebook itself.
this shouldn't be used to justify tracking (Score:3)
good that obviously guilty criminal is in prison.
but this sort of thing shouldn't be used to justify tracking, and invasions of privacy, of people who have not explicitly authorized facebook and other techs to track them.
but i am afraid they will be so used. be prepared hear more stories like this.
wonder if criminal and his lawyers(in this case probably cheap or free ones) fully used his legal defenses to invalidate evidence.
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It is not like the evidence IS his FB profile - he has been recognized, at least by the woman who reported him in. So, even if one takes the pains of "FB is ivading privacy" (to the point people can't be criminals), this instance is not a matter of the evidence being illegal. The most any lawyer could clain would be "the way my client was found was illegal under privacy laws", but once he is found, there is no undoing it. What could possibly be done in a case like this? Subject the guy to some "witness pro
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
...idiot mugger uses real photo of himself on Facebook, gets recognized by one of his many victims, and arrested.
Dude, really? Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
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Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
Uh, you have to stay up to date. They're now The Sticky Bandits. ...and Kevin is the new badass... [youtube.com]
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Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
Uh, you have to stay up to date. They're now The Sticky Bandits. ...and Kevin is the new badass... [youtube.com]
Ah, I see, thanks for the update!
Unlike potato chips, I find I have no problem stopping after just one Home Alone movie...
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...idiot mugger uses real photo of himself on Facebook, gets recognized by one of his many victims, and arrested.
Dude, really? Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
I think you'll find that every criminal uses a real photo of themselves on Facebook. That's the wonderful thing about the criminal mind, they don't hide their face from public life based on the thought that their face was not publicised during their crime.
For once! (Score:2)
For once Facebook actually led to something good.
(Statistically speaking, though, it had to happen sooner or later.)
Re:Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:4, Insightful)
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What do you do if you're not physically strong, but someone bigger and stronger than you attacks you?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016... [foxnews.com]
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2, Insightful)
What use is your do when the criminal is pointing a gun at your head? What happens if you miss? What happens if you drop your gun because you're terrified. If guns are magic wands that keep you safe, why doesn't the US have the lowest crime rate in the developed world? I'm not against gun ownership but I'm tired of the bullshit.
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Now that kids not exposed to so much lead as children are reaching adulthood, our crime rates are falling.
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Now that kids not exposed to so much lead as children are reaching adulthood, our crime rates are falling.
Except in Chicago, where on some nights the air is about 40% lead.
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What use is your do when the criminal is pointing a gun at your head? What happens if you miss? What happens if you drop your gun because you're terrified.
What if nothing... you didn't bother to read the news story I linked to...
If guns are magic wands that keep you safe, why doesn't the US have the lowest crime rate in the developed world? I'm not against gun ownership but I'm tired of the bullshit.
Then be tired of being ignorant to the facts...
The US does have one of the lowest crime rates in the developed world, outside of a few select areas. Stay out of Compton, the South Side, and a few other places and the US is amazingly crime free...
We have a gang problem and a black problem, but no one wants to talk about it because that is "racist". No it isn't, it is the truth...
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:5, Insightful)
And we have much lower crime rates again if we pretend all the high crime areas in our countries don't exist. Fuck me I'm sick of that stupid argument.
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Again, you miss the point...
Having guns or not having guns has nothing to do with the crime rates...
Removing all the guns wouldn't change them. It is an economic problem and a cultural problem.
But those are harder to fix than just saying "evil guns".
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:4, Informative)
You missed me saying that I'm not in favour of gun control but this idea that guns are magic wands that keep crime at bay is bollocks otherwise your country would have the lowest crime rate in the developed world.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:4, Insightful)
By that logic the gang areas should be super safe because they're full of guns. Home invasions are virtually unknown in the area I live in but there are few guns, legal or otherwise. The causes of crime tend to be poverty, family breakdown, poor education and sociopaths. There is no shortage of criminals in Eastern Europe where there are virtually no black people.
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Or maybe you can provide such a source? Asking others to do your legwork is incredibly lazy and reeks of you betting they won't.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
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Yes they include suicides in gun death stats. They are also including justifiable homicides.
Recently, as knowledge of this statistical BS has become commonplace, the anti-gun folks have begun to justify why it's legitimate to include suicides, based on how often someone is successful in killing themselves when using a firearm vs other methods. It's quite silly to watch and I do recommend it.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
A bit like trying to exclude certain areas from your crime statistics because they're inconvenient.
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https://www.gunowners.org/sk08... [gunowners.org]
Read and learn...
* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]
Guns are good, criminals are bad... banning guns does not remove criminals, it simply makes victims out of good people.
That's a fact, no matter how much CNN doesn't want you to know it...
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And you're a moron, what's new? Seriously, it amazes me how stupid some people really are...
You of course don't know that you're stupid, nor would you be willing to admit it, so pointing out your errors is a waste of time, since you'll just ignore anything that doesn't match your false beliefs...
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By that logic the gang areas should be super safe because they're full of guns.
No, not at all... guns are hard to LEGALLY get in those gang areas...
Seriously, stop having opinions about shit you know nothing about...
https://www.gunowners.org/sk08... [gunowners.org]
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So in other words, you have chosen to be ignorant...
What are you doing on Slashdot, if you willfully wish to be stupid?
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no son
I'm not your son, and you remain stupid, willfully so...
Go troll somewhere else, you suck at it...
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My claim was that the anti-gun side includes suicides and justifiable homicides to inflate their numbers and summon outrage. Your blabbering is not responsive to my point at all.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
Why are they hard to legally get? Are people from the bad areas banned from owning guns by default? However this conversation is a bit pointless given that in your world black criminals from bad areas don't count towards crime statistics and this man is a black criminal from a bad area so doesn't in fact exist.
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Why are they hard to legally get?
Like I said, you have opinions on things you don't know anything about...
http://smartgunlaws.org/new-yo... [smartgunlaws.org]
New York does not impose a waiting period prior to the purchase of a firearm (although it may take up to six months to obtain a license to purchase a handgun).
I don't know about you, but "up to six months obtain a license" strikes me as a hell of a waiting period.
The above are STATE laws, try it in New York City itself and it is much worse...
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http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/3... [cnn.com]
This right here is another example of all that is wrong with the gun conversation.
"stopping gun deaths" translates to "well, if we take away all the guns, we'll be fine!"
Stupid idiots...
The problem with murders and deaths has nothing to do with guns, everything to do with poverty, crime, and other issues...
2/3 of all gun deaths are suicide, but the US doesn't have a higher suicide rate than the rest of the modern world, we just use guns to do it.
That 33,000 gun death number
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
Sounds like people can get guns if they want them them and therefore the ghetto should be crime free.
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As expected, you don't bother to read and learn, you just repeat lies and false beliefs without regard to the truth.
You're a fool, and worse, you don't even know it.
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Only a couple million people in the US have concealed carry licenses and carry regularly. It's actually quite taboo here in most places. So we do not get the benefit that you would get with criminals knowing a significant % of their potential victims are armed.
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So, on the extremely small chance that someone physically stronger than you, threatens you (without a gun of course) and you happen to have a gun and can operate it effectively while freaked out (and not accidentally shoot someone else or yourself which is more likely), you're willing to sacrifice all the other lives lost to guns? Like children under 5 who die or kill others every week in America because they kill themselves with a misplaced gun?
You're pretty sick.
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you're willing to sacrifice all the other lives lost to guns?
Guns save more lives than they take, at least the good ones...
Why do you want to kill good people? You're pretty sick...
Note: Read and learn the facts, instead of the bullshit you THINK you know...
https://www.gunowners.org/sk08... [gunowners.org]
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I'll counter your fox "news" entertainment site link with this:
https://everytownresearch.org/... [everytownresearch.org]
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It isn't "entertainment", it is fact...
Thousands of people every week defend themselves with a gun, many of those people would not be here without it...
The media doesn't report on it that often, doesn't fit with their "message".
https://www.gunowners.org/sk08... [gunowners.org]
Read and learn...
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
Wow, OK, so with all those guns defending you, America must have one of the lowest murder rates in the world then, ay! Otherwise you'd just sound like a fool saying that!
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Just what I expected, you didn't bother to learn anything...
Instead you just repeat your ignorance over and over...
For heavens sake, how the hell is the world supposed to get better if people won't learn anything?
Yes, I'm annoyed, because you're part of the problem, you're an ignorant fuck who doesn't want to learn anything and you keep repeating the same stupid things.
The human race is so screwed because of people like you, and the sad part is that you don't even know it.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
Ahh, a straw man response, I'd expect nothing less.
Golf clap.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't understand why the tons of accidental shooting deaths and injuries, in addition to all of the intended shootings that happen just because one or both parties are armed and the situation escalates, are totally acceptable to those that cite 'defense'.
I'd think the freedom not to die from some irrational fucktard's anger, or from some stray bullet going though your apartment wall due to some dude next door playing with his gun, might be a little more important than this almost-entirely-hypothetical 'fr
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Criminals MAY acquire and use guns, but it makes prosecution MUCH easier because by possession they have committed an irrefutable crime already.
Most US jurisdictions also have penalty intensifiers for crimes committed with a gun, so that point is a wash.
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Making prosecution easier should not ever be a goal. If you don't have evidence, prosecutors need to go find some or drop the case.
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Because no thread on any topic is complete without a rant about the Second Amendment.
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I was expecting one about the fifth, among the lines of "He incriminated himself, so that's inadmissible".
Re:Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:5, Informative)
The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK [bbc.co.uk]. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is down to if not a strong legislative and cultural approach to gun control.
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The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK [bbc.co.uk]. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is down to if not a strong legislative and cultural approach to gun control.
Because the British are a bunch of sheeple, obviously. Free Men murder each other with properly virile gusto.
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The more important figure is murder by any means. Dead is dead.
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Only if that is the only variable. Meanwhile in the U.K. muggings are more common than the U.S.
It wouldn't surprise me if the social safety net figures in to the higher homicide rate in the U.S. as well. The lack makes it harder to leave a violent home situation and in general makes people feel more desperate.
Since handgun bans are recent enough to have good figures, I can say it's a fairly consistent response. Immediately after, homicide goes up [mintpressnews.com] and then settles down to about where it was before the ban [crimeresearch.org].
So
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Other countries with legal ownership of firearms don't have the same murder rate as the US. I think this is more of a cultural phenomenon than anything else. Namely, I'm talking about these kind of people:
http://www.theventureonline.co... [theventureonline.com]
Think about it: If your close friends think that being a petty thug is an awesome career choice, you're probably more likely to do it.
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"The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK [bbc.co.uk]. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is"
The real difference is 3.8 times, and it's historically because the problem of angry minorities and no-go areas that the US has had for years is brand new in Europe. But now that there have already been two beheadings in the streets of London, the problem is coming to you.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2)
No. The US murder rate is 3.8 times that of the UK but the murder rate with guns is 30 times.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:5, Insightful)
US homicide rates are about 3 times higher. Lets be clear here, the rest of the world doesnt envy the US; when it comes to gun law we genuinely believe that you are totally and irredeemably batshit insane, and can only watch in horror.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:5, Insightful)
"the rest of the world doesnt envy the US; when it comes to gun law we genuinely believe that you are totally and irredeemably batshit insane, and can only watch in horror."
That's an understatement.
Other countries after massacres think "hmm, perhaps we should do something to fix this".
And fix it.
American's seem to think that massacres means more guns should be introduced and start buying more while screaming "Obama about to tell the army to attack Texas and take all my guns!!!". That's right, ask all the soldiers that come from Texas to attack their own families. Yet a large proportions of American's genuinely believe that will happen, just like they believe the world's only a few thousand years old.
And now they've got Trump one step away from punching the big red nuke button.
"Batshit insane" just scratches the surface of how messed up America is.
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You can't compare the US and Europe like for like. The US is pretty culturally homogeneous (because you killed off most of the native population and replaced it with your own), whereas Europe has enormous cultural differences, even from one country to the next.
Eastern Europe is especially under tension, because of the constant and arbitrary moving of borders that has happened over the last century or two.
The US has had nothing like that, at least not anywhere near that scale of fuckery.
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2, Insightful)
The UK had a similar ratio lower murder rate before they enacted gun laws. I'm an Aussie and our murder rate has declined at about the same rate it was declining before our gun laws.
When I left school in QLD you could buy military style semiautomatics over the counter, no license, no waiting period. We didn't carry them about like Americans seem to. A few mass shootings and they got banned. But even with the mass shootings our overall murder rate was declining and was far less than the US.
I suspect that bri
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Murder rates are indeed higher in the US, by a ratio of 3.4. On the other hand, you are massively more likely to be a victim of non-lethal violent crime in the UK, by a ratio of 4.8. (Exact counts vary by year, and are very rough estimates as official sources are useless because of different definitions of "violent crime").
It's also bad to compare whole countries, so let's a look at New York vs London -- very similar population, both include a minority known for violent crime. Here, in an apples-to-apple
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In the UK all sorts of things are included in "violent crime", including some forms of verbal assault. Comparing that across borders is not going to serve any useful purpose.
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Lots of people don't actually consider UK a part of Europe, seeing as it's culturally closer to the US, as this incident also demonstrates.
Next month, the UK will have an opportunity to vote on that.
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The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
Just curious...what kind of brain injury do you have?
Re:Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:5, Informative)
I think what GP may be referring to is the actual underlying story here, which the BGR article linked seems to have wrong. Omar Famuyide was in fact brandishing a gun and pointed it at the victim's head, and said gun was found abandoned in the car (a white BMW) two days later.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u... [mirror.co.uk]
He also fired a shot inside of a massage parlor:
http://www.birminghammail.co.u... [birminghammail.co.uk]
And in case you consider those two sources to be somehow less reliable than BGR, here's a third source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng... [bbc.com]
So yeah, he did in fact commit these crimes while brandishing a gun, and there are even a few photos of said gun.
The liberal mindset (Score:2, Interesting)
Dear Sir,
You have done a superb job painstakingly pointing out the flaws of that gun-hating liberal
If you think you can change their mind, you might as well take a well deserved rest
Fire can use to burn down a house, but the same fire can also be used for cooking
The liberals can't understand that guns, like fire, have more than one use. For them 'gun' == 'kill', and that's it. They refuse to accept anything else
Forget it, Sir. Them liberals' mind is set, in concrete
Re:The liberal mindset (Score:4, Insightful)
Guns have one purpose: To maim or kill another living being, either a human or an animal. There is absolutely no other use for a gun. Using a gun to intimidate someone, is to threaten them with the possibility of being maimed or killed.
Even target shooting (which I sometimes participate in myself) is nothing more than training for using a gun to maim or kill.
That's it. Firearms have literally no uses that are non-destructive.
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Firearms have literally no uses that are non-destructive.
No no, you can use them to shoot out the lock of a building where a bunch of orphans are about to be burned alive.
Please, think of the children.
Freedom (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Freedom (Score:5, Insightful)
"Feel" however you want, the rest of us don't care. But when you start trying to take a means of defense away from others, you have crossed the line. You are taking away others' freedom so that you can "feel" safer. I believe Franklin had a quote regarding liberty and safety.
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You don't have a right to feelings
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I guess we just define freedom differently. To you, freedom is walking down the street feeling safe because you're allowed to carry a firearm. For me, freedom is walking down the street feeling safe without needing to carry a firearm.
As with most things in life, many people would rather have something and not need it than need something and not have it.
Besides, your "freedom" to walk down the street without needing a firearm comes from the fact that men with guns back up your "freedom".
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Famuyide's record includes armed robbery.
And yes, the UK is trying knife control: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carr... [www.gov.uk]
Note that self-defense is not one of the listed valid reasons for carrying a knife.
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Seriously though. Do you think the guy that is willing to stick that knife into you gives a shit about the law saying you can't carry a knife? That's the silliness of such laws. You make it impossible for law abiding people to have any means of defense and render them helpless while doing nothing to impede the lawless. If I'm willing to murder and or rob you then why do I care about a weapons charge?
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:2, Insightful)
Because it allows police to have good reason to arrest someone when they stop and search them and find the knife. Why is this so difficult for you to grasp? Stop trying to peddle your idiotic American gun culture on the rest of the planet. It is clearly the reason why you have so many shootings. I enjoy my city and I don't want it to become a dangerous shithole like the US is.
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Well, it might be dangerous, and it might be a shithole, but... uh...
U! S! A!
U! S! A!
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Why are police stopping and searching people? Have they done something wrong? Given that police don't have x-ray vision or mind-reading powers, how many people do you think police would have to stop and search before finding someone in possession of something illegal? How many daily searches would you tolerate?
Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! (Score:4, Insightful)
Plenty of US cities have laws like you suggest. They are the cities with the worst gun crime.
Strangely, you made the guy's point for him. Your country's laws are such that the only people with weapons are criminals, so much so that the sight of a weapon identifies someone as a criminal. This is common knowledge for the non-criminals in your country. It's probably also common knowledge for the criminals. You all do have a point though; if the criminals know that nobody has any means to defend themselves beyond their fists, then there is less need to carry a firearm. Criminals can overpower victims with far less.
I don't quite understand the suggestion that anyone was trying to tell your country how it should run. I think you should have whatever laws you'd like in your country. Uniform laws breed ignorance, much like the content of your comment. With diverse laws, we have actual data from different jurisdictions. It's never pure, because there are always confounding variables, but it's enough to make a pretty strong argument for leaving 2nd amendment rights in tact for the people that want to exercise them.
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My point is simple and not controversial. If you are a criminal about to commit a crime, you want to know there is little or no risk you will be stopped. Criminals will case a house for days before robbing it to minimize the chance they are interfered with. Not saying having a gun helps that scenario; just using it as evidence of the criminal mindset. Therefore, knowing that everyone is completely unarmed is much more comforting than not knowing. Whether a criminal still goes through with the criminal act i
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Dude, I grew up in Detroit.
We had plenty of criminals. Nobody cased a house for anything like days. The biggest problems were a) one gang of idiots whose entire "casing" strategy seemed to involve verifying the people inside the house were not black (on the apparent theory that non-blacks would be unable to tell black people apart, it failed miserably because yes we can do that, and hilariously one of their victims turned out to be a light-skinned black dude), and the super-genuis who robbed every house on
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71 fucking years ago.
A LOT has happened since then, dickwad.
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They are for the numerous women who carry them in their purses as a rape defence.
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That butter isn't going to spread itself!
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Knives don't run out of ammo. Also, they don't like it up 'em, you know.
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At arms length, knives are the only effective weapon. I think Mythbusters did that once, it's much faster to charge into an opponent with a knife than accurately pull and aim a gun (it's like 3 or 5m or slightly more but most 'close combat' situations will be better with a non-gun weapon)
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A suggestion for you to research: lookup the crimes committed by people with "non-traditional British name" and those with "traditional" "British name". Then look to see if non-traditional naming is linked to increased criminal activity. I'd be genuinely surprised if that would be the case.
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Fuck off, you racist twat.
From a Brit with a traditional British name.