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Apple's Global Security Chief Indicted in Scheme to Trade iPads for Gun Permits, but Apple Says It's Found No Wrongdoing
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What does this nonsense have to do with the subject of the article?
Also every politician and government agency in the world. Its just a sad state of affairs.
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Earlier this week, Apple's Chief Security Offier Thomas Moyer and others were charged in an expanding investigation involving the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office over exchanging bribes for concealed gun permits, reported the Morgan Hill Times.
According to the investigation, Santa Clara County Undersheriff Rick Sung held back four concealed carry weapons permits for Apple's security team unless the company agreed to donate 200 iPads worth $75,000 to the Sheriff's Office. Rather than reporting the bribe request, Moyer was apparently set to facilitate the tech donation until the last moment when an investigation into the situation was started.Facebook has also been linked to the bribery scheme, with officials at AS Solution, the company that provides executive protection for Facebook, pleading guilty.
For Apple's part, the company is standing by Moyer, providing a statement to Ars Technica indicating that it has investigated the situation and "found no wrongdoing."Moyer, Chadha, and the two officials from the Sheriff's Office are scheduled to be arraigned on January 11.
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The US is nothing like Europe in demographics so why would it be like the US in murder? Murder is a small part of violent crime (clearly an important part). How does Europe compare to the US in violent crime?
Even in the US you should break crime statistics down by locality, ethnicity, and/or income. For example, in the suburb I live in violent crime is basically 0 (we don't attack each other or other people), while property crime is relatively high (people come here to steal our stuff).
Ideally crime rates would be broken down by income level, because that's information you can use that doesn't violate any civil-rights style sensibilities.
You can’t. California is a “may issue” state, meaning that even if you pass all the qualifications for a concealed weapons permit, it is up to the discretion of the sherrif of each respective county to issue the permit. Hence the quite obvious avenue for abuses of power such as bribes, favoritism, etc.
Just liberals? Or do you have one eye closed lol.
What aspects of demographics do you think differ most? Age distribution? Racial separation? And I'm not sure how you would relate other violent crime to rates of gun ownership? Would lower numbers of rape for example indicate that more guns help there or the other way around that fewer guns would help there?
What freedom do guns buy you that couldn't be achieved with fewer guns? Are politicians less likely to pass certain restrictions because they fear being threatened personally by people with guns? Or how many times has the threat of an armed insurrection against the government affected politics?
Guns are like fast or big cars. They make you feel 'stronger'. But they don't make you free.
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Looks like plenty of Californians are excessing their 2A if you ask me. I don't know why everyone's accusing the California Libs (!!) of trampling their rights. We've got plenty of guns, and we shoot people here.
2nd Amendment alive and well in California!
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2nd Amendment alive and well in California!
Mass shootings in the U.S. by state 1982-2024| Statista
As of September 2024, California had the most mass shootings in the United States, with 26 total shootings since 1982.
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The county and the department have the money, but everyone at the top of the sheriff's department seems to be an opportunist.
The freedom to defend myself against those who would try and take that which is mine or harm those close to me.
The freedom to defend myself against an oppressive government. Granted, this has not been an issue here in the US in a very long time but once you disarm the population you remove their ability to revolt against an oppressor. All you need to do is look back on the history of populations that were disarmed or never allowed to be armed at all and I am talking about over the course of human history, not the past 50 years.
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Sure they don’t.🙄
But even you can surely agree that they make this far less likely to ever happen. And the serial mass murders of innocent people by their own governments dwarf any harm you might lay at firearms in the hands of the peaceable and law-abiding. The peaceable and law-abiding don’t let this happen, to themselves or other innocents.
Curious the massive correlation between those who long for an all-powerful government and those who wish to eliminate firearms used for protection of our persons, our families, and our societies.🤔
I think it is funny because practically every large company I have ever worked for required every employee to go through extensive ethics training emphasizing how even just the slightest appearance of wrongdoing was grounds for punitive actions or dismissal.
Care to provide a demographic breakdown? 🤔Looks like plenty of Californians are excessing their 2A if you ask me. I don't know why everyone's accusing the California Libs (!!) of trampling their rights. We've got plenty of guns, and we shoot people here.
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2nd Amendment alive and well in California!
Mass shootings in the U.S. by state 1982-2024| Statista
As of September 2024, California had the most mass shootings in the United States, with 26 total shootings since 1982.
1) People think they’re protecting themselves, but many a gun owner has had it used against them. Many are also stolen and used in crimes.
How many homeowners (successfully) use a gun to protect themselves, compared to the number murdered by a family member with it! Any stats?
2) Anyone who thinks a bunch of John Q Publics could ever fight the US military are quite mistaken, imo. If it comes to that we’re screwed, and armed counter-resistance won’t do crap.
Since you seem unaware tech companies changed the gun emoji to a water pistol because lawyers in court were managing to successfully argue that the gun emoji constituted a threat. Apple wasn’t the only one to change it.
How about you worry about your hobbies, and i will tend to mine. I enjoy shooting guns and so do millions of other law abiding people.