Dear dog, we’ve reached the level of gun-humping that it is now homeopathic.
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Beat me by a minute!
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I prefer great minds think alike…
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This is almost exactly where my mind went immediately, but replace kill with rape. 
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Exactly. Drivers who are supposed to have guns and are ex-military or cops? Two groups with very high rates of sexual assault in a profession where sexual assault is already a big problem. This isn’t going to be safe, no matter how many extra background checks they do. If they do any. The article I read made it sound like they were hiring ex-military or cops/ex-cops because they assume these people have clean background checks.
U.S. military is hiring thousands of psychologists to help reduce sexual assault).
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The thing i’m truly worrying about is: What is the scenario or location that would incentivize a customer to want to hire a driver with a gun?? Now let me paint you this scenario: A MAGA pearl clutching customer hires an armed driver and has them go into an area where there are leftist demonstrators, and they suddenly feel unsafe. And hey, the driver has a gun. I wonder what could happen?
This marries up to the statistic that owning a gun immediately puts you into a statistical bracket where you’re more likely to end up involved in a shooting, because you’ve got a hammer and every problem you encounter sure looks like a nail.
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I propose a compromise.
Allow any American to own a nail gun.
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I think they can?
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Getaway driver?
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Giving the getaway driver a gun is asking for a heist that ends in a classic double-cross scenario.
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As an engineer, I have been offered work in places where it’s perfectly normal for your driver to be armed. In fact, it’s written in the contract. A few of the places: Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen off the top of my head. I’ve always turned down those offers; the money is excellent, but I don’t see the point of being the richest dead guy on my street.
Seeing this becoming a routine service in the US is unsettling.
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Only one I can think of is rough areas.
Back during peak crime in the 90s, I worked in the affluent west side of the city, but lived in the projects on the east side. Normally I’d walk home from work, but some nights during holiday season or inventory time, I was just too wiped out so I’d call a cab.
They wouldn’t take me home. One driver even burst out crying and told me he’d been there before and been robbed. I said fine, just drop me a few blocks away at the last well-lit business and I’ll walk the rest of the way.
Maybe there’s a market for drivers, emboldened by a gun, who aren’t afraid to drive into the 1990s-era projects for a pick-up or drop-off.
Not sure how they’re gonna get back to the 90s though. There aren’t many areas in the city where you could safely get up to 88mph and trigger your flux capacitor.
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To repurpose a phrase from Regan:
The solution to the problem of guns is not more guns.
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The logical end result to this scenario is an escalation where people would get shot and killed. Not by cops but by civilians putting themselves in dangerous situations. I honestly don’t think that an armed driver in the 90s would’ve been a good idea, and i still don’t think its a good idea now. Would you prioritize your convenience over your or someone else’s life?
Ultimately the solution for your dilemma isn’t guns but solutions that address socio-economic uncertainty to marginalized communities, but that’s not a sexy elevator business pitch. Drivers with guns clearly is.
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It’s white slavery.
As for expanding into Texas, KingBrown said that BlackWolf “identified a significant increase in human trafficking” in the state. Recognizing the “urgent need,” the company decided to expand into the state.
Yellow peril and white slavery what year are we living in?
“Let’s remind the world that we’re one of the only countries that hasn’t agreed to ban antipersonnel land mines!” is a heck of a note to leave on, Joe.
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WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit.
It’s an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany | WIRED
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We also acquired an internal Pentagon presentation delivered to high-ranking general officers this year. It declares America’s unregulated data brokers a threat to “force protection” that DOD can’t even assess. Troops are powerless on the individual level to protect themselves, it says.
WIRED can also report for the first time that the FTC is poised to bring lawsuits against US companies that are currently offering foreign spy agencies and others the power to geofence sensitive US military installations.
Yes, brothels. We can track US personnel leaving sensitive intelligence sites in Europe, going to sex clubs, and then going home. So of course Russia can as well.
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If it’s against the Uniform Code of Military Justice to pay a sex worker, then that itself is the strongest form of potential blackmail. If a service member risks losing their job or even going to jail for it, then they are pretty likely to give in to any blackmail attempts about having done so.
Legalize it and a big part of the problem goes away. This isn’t rocket surgery.
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I would have thought that, at the very least, the number of 
soldiers killed in 
because of their cell-phone data would be enough to get the message through. I hope that data brokers incur the full wrath of NATO’s militaries for what they do.
Remember to disable your Android and/or Apple advertising ID, as the EFF explains.
Not paywalled.
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