This is a ridiculous line of reasoning and it is even more ridiculous that people are upvoting it. No government in the history of the world has ever written in its constitution a provision for its own demise. Say what you will about self-defense or individual liberties, but there is no fucking way the Founders intended for the people to have guns so they could overthrow the government.

President Obama refuses to call for additional gun control today, despite being a DEMOCRATIC party president with major political capital from just being emphatically reelected. The Democrats have abandoned this issue en masse. The gun lobby already has answers prepared (if people at the school had guns the only dead person would be the shooter, etc.) and they have traction among the population. Federal court struck down a concealed carry law in Illinois 2 days ago and it doesn't seem likely that the Supreme Court will roll that back.

It's clear the NRA has won on this issue. I don't think anyone can deny that, no matter what political party they belong to.

LMAO, do you seriously think Romney would be any better?

So when you bug Boeing jets and put backdoors into Microsoft Windows, it's all well and good and DEFENDING GLORIOUS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY because it's your side doing it?

Funny how the Slashdot hivemind is on the wrong side of the discussion yet again, although as usual they were so entirely convinced of their correctness.

or Brazil is found to be harboring Al-Qaeda and hiding weapons of mass destruction?

about the supposed Chinese hackers? Since they're doing the same thing themselves against people they don't like?

But of course they won't. The West can't help but be sanctimonious and hypocritical.

So when you guys bug Boeing jets and backdoor Microsoft Windows, this is all well and good, but there might be a backdoor in a Chinese made chip, and it's pitchforks and torches?

As usual the Western hypocrisy reveals itself again. But of course, just like in a sports match, your team has never committed a foul, while everything the other team does is a foul?

The only reason there are negative comments in this thread is because China proposed this, so it must be a nefarious ploy by the Evil Red Menace to destroy America. If this were proposed by the American government all of you would be fainting from excitement.

that they can beat our hackers?

We will not let this act of naked Western aggression stand without retaliation, and Anonymous is not going to win. They will soon have their own medicine shoved back in their face, and good riddance to bad rubbish.

That they can beat our hackers?

We will not allow this attack to stand without retaliation, and Anonymous is not going to win.

Sure looks like it here. An Israeli organization is telling the American legal system to crack down, through Twitter, on terrorist organizations which are only minor threats to the US (and in the case of Shabab, not even a threat to Israel).

It's routine for the Americans to insist on other countries to do things for them, but they're now tolerating a Israel telling them to do something for Israel's benefit?

So the great Apple company resorts to patent trolling, through a shell company to obfuscate their intentions. Where is the Slashdot outrage over this? Or does the hivemind still think that Apple can do no evil?

This guy is spouting Republican talking points, saying the program is "creating too much bureaucracy" and "being wasteful government spending". Notice he doesn't actually care about the loss of privacy and rights. If he could contract a private company to strip search everyone and save money on the budget, he'd probably do it. Heck he might even be able to spin it off as "helping the job creators." Just because someone agrees with you an issue doesn't mean he agrees with you for the same reasons nor that you'd like the solutions he'd propose.

Hell, when free elections in Palestine bring Hamas into power, or free elections in Lebanon bring Hezbollah to a parliamentary majority, the US calls them terrorists and imposes economic sanctions. This is just within the last 10 years, the US did this routinely during the Cold War. I wonder what will happen if free elections in Libya bring an Islamist government into power. Perhaps Libya will need to get "freedom" crammed down its throat like Iraq did.