An exaggeration, sure, but the above post shouldn't have been downmodded.

There are lots of instances of ISPs strangling municipal broadband movements either through lobbying or direct legal action.

This. Actually getting robbed (or raped) will drastically alter your perspective.

In 2015 there were more than 327k robberies and 90k rapes in the US. That the author personally wasn't one of them is irrelevant and doesn't change anybody else's odds. It is confirmation bias which leads the author to conclude that fears of being robbed are unfounded (apparently a belief based solely on his own personal experiences).

As someone who has been robbed, I know that my biases lean in the other direction. However, the facts say that in the United States your odds of being robbed in a given year are roughly 1/1000. In certain urban areas, it will obviously be much higher. Thus, for many people, a fear or expectation of being robbed is not irrational or unfounded.

This does not have anything to do with Congress' browser histories.

This tool makes it easier to determine if Congress visits YOUR WEBSITE ONLY.

This info is in the summary, but come on SlashDot, there is no need for the clickbait headlines.

Comey's memos were intentionally unclassified. The same can't be said of Snowden's leak.

I don't think Comey actually broke any rules.

Yeah, same here...

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Yeah, I was pretty skeptical when I saw "unlimited".

Sure enough, just Slashdot editors goofing up summaries again. Seriously BeauHD, unlimited does not mean the same thing as "rotating selection of 50".

Truthfully, I'm glad your interested enough in this topic to look into it further.

I suggest you don't take my word on any of this, and actually read some of the first hand accounts of what happened at Fort Hood in 2009.

True enough.

Of course I meant to say 'On Duty' MPs... As you quoted above, if they weren't on duty, they couldn't carry.

They do have their own police force. And, just as in other gun-free zones, only that police force may have weapons on the base (as you quoted). And in this case, as in the recent shooting, there weren't any police present when the shooting initially occurred.

So, when you said the base was "literally full of highly trained people with guns", that was wrong. Only a small percentage did. Maybe you don't realize how big a military base is, but there are some 45,000 soldiers and 9,000 civilians on the base. How many of those do you think were LEOs, MPs or on guard duty?

From the linked wikipdia article on the 2009 shooting:

According to testimony from witnesses, Hasan passed up several opportunities to shoot civilians, and instead targeted soldiers in uniform,[30] who - in accordance with military policy - were not carrying personal firearms.

Foot Hood is actually a pretty bad example to support the gun control argument. Fort Hood was and is essentially a gun-free zone.

All those "highly trained people"? They weren't allowed to carry firearms on base.

Like the other poster said, there's always another way to inflict violence, but also, your solution wouldn't even work for guns.

Like the current "high-capacity" magazine bans, they are easily defeated with a little DIY knowledge. A plastic mold and some springs will let you make your own magazines.

There's no weapon design that can prevent this kind of modification, and with a little additional metal-cutting ability, your 4-6 bullet cartridge is now fed from a large drum magazine.

Lastly, 4-6 bullets is not enough for defense. In the movies the bad guys go down pretty easily, requiring only 1-2 shots before being down for good. In reality, the bad guys can keep fighting after being shot multiple times, sometimes for several minutes. Even a few seconds is all it takes for someone to stab you after you deplete your 4-6 bullets. I was recently reading an article on Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who kept fighting after sustaining 37 bullet, shrapnel, and bayonet wounds in Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This. Did you hear about the mass killing by 2 muslim extremists at an art exhibit in TX, with hundreds dead, and more wounded? No, because they were shot dead at the door.

Like you said though, it doesn't make headlines unless it has a good body count...