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Who are "they"? Many politicians are on the same side of each debate, wanting to restrict the rights of free people in the name of safety and security. I'm curi
by PKop 11y ago
Who are "they"? Many politicians are on the same side of each debate, wanting to restrict the rights of free people in the name of safety and security. I'm curious, do you see a distinction between the two issues? Sounds like you're on opposite sides for each of them.
- grhino 11y agoI think the argument is that if bad guys didn't have guns, then there would be no reason for good guys to have guns except to fend off wildlife. However, even if the bad guys didn't have encryption, we would still want good guys to have encryption to prevent the bad guys from intercepting private and sensitive communications.
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago>then there would be no reason for good guys to have guns except to fend off wildlife. Ignoring the issues such as fending off bad guys (so what if they only have a knife, I'd rather bring a gun to a knife fight), hunting wild life, shooting for fun, owning collections, any many other reasons. Outright dismissing all of those is like just dismissing the need to protect private electronic communications.