And now, another video from J. Kb.’s favorite Youtuber:
Mind you, this guy is a gun owner, but he is now to the point he has ceased to see the world through the eyes of the common people or even common sense.
Dindu Nothing and his cousin Juan “Yono” Izenada do not carry expensive sets of lockpicks or custom made ones or powerful magnets or RFID reader with them to go break into cars so they can scoop the spare change from the cup holders. They are meth heads that would have probably already pawned all that crap for a quick hit.
We know that car burglars spend less than a minute ransacking a car they find unlocked and most of them know that being caught with what cops can tag as burglary tools, may bring you a felony charge depending on the state.
Just because you are really good at cracking locks, it does not me all those locks are useless for the purpose the buyers intend. I am sure he can design a shotgun lock that is almost undefeatable, but it will probably cost so much the police departments will ignore it and keep the ones they have.
This is just more of the “If it isn’t 100% perfect, it’s shit” BS that infests both ends of the political from “We should confiscate ‘assault weapons’ because Broward County Sheriffs are useless cowards” to “The NRA is now gun owners worst enemy” because LaPierre hasn’t been fired.
IDK whether it’s the perceived notion that only the loudest get noticed on social media these days, or simply that polemics are somehow ingrained in our DNA.
It is also the case of “What is easy for me is easy for others.” For TLPL, he is winning lock picking contests. Therefore what is nearly impossible for others is trivial for him. And he hasn’t notice just how good he’s gotten.
He also commonly ignores security in layers.
The lock on my house and the alarms on my house are a level of security. The lock box in my bedroom for my ready firearm is there to keep curious people away. NOT to stop a dedicated thief from taking my firearm.
It is more about keeping my grandchild away from the firearm than some hoodlum. At the point in time where my grandson is old enough that the lock box is not enough, then I have to consider “Is he trained to be safe around a firearm he finds?” and “Is he trustworthy enough to be allowed in the house?”
Miguel reset my car lock box requirements.
There are three times where my car lock box might be used: Entering a building where firearms are prohibited for a short period of time. I.e. a post office. Entering a building for an extended period of time. I.e. a place of work. And last, Overnight storage in the lock box. Either by mistake or intent.
The last I fully avoid. There are reasons where it might be required, but very very seldom.
Thus my requirement is more about ease of access while in the drivers seat. I don’t want to have to get out of the vehicle in order to access the lock box.
I had a (sort of) conversation with a non masked “PhD in epidemiology”, in line ahead of me at the hardware store in my small town. (who, btw, was lacking several teeth)
Did you realize that a mask that is not PERFECT!!!, is useless?
In 40 years as an RN, overlapping with a dozen years as a PA, I had never learned that. Everything black/white, no scalar aspect, no “grey”, eh, neighbor?
“Did you realize that a mask that is not PERFECT!!!, is useless?“
I blame medical school for that attitude, i also ran into the same attitude in NBC specialists. In a zero tolerance for failure profession their schools tend to teach anything that isn’t 100% all the time is a failure, there is no acceptance for better than nothing solutions as they aren’t taught how to deal with situations beyond what is normal or ideal. “Liability lawyers have only exasperated the attitude.
Having retired from the health care field, I can tell you that this is both the attitude and the type of person that the medical field wants. It is either 100% right, or it is wrong. That is because the American people demand perfection from medical personnel, and anything less than perfection will get you sued by ambulance chasing lawyers.
In any security system, be it physical security, computer security, securing firearms … or whatever, it’s never “secure vs. insecure”. Rather, it’s a balancing act along a spectrum.
On one end of the spectrum is “Security”. On the other is “Accessibility” (or alternatively, “Usability”).
A system that is accessible at all is at least a little bit insecure. And a system that is 100% secure is, by definition, inaccessible.
(There’s a third variable, which increases exponentially if you want to try and get both security and accessibility. That third one is “Cost”, but for the purposes of discussion, we’ll ignore that for now.)
TLPL’s channel is an endless assertion that if there’s any non-zero chance — no matter how remote — that it can be accessed without authorization, then it’s not completely, 100% secure. (And it’s funny that TLPL never seems to have an answer to, “Why would a $1,000/hour, expert safe-cracking consultant want to raid my safe for my second-hand Mossberg?” Or, “Why would a couple guys break into my house with their acetylene torches instead of going to their ‘essential’ and good-paying welding jobs?”)
The sense that, “If an expert in a machine shop can defeat it, then it’s not secure and therefore all security is worthless,” is not constructive any more than fearing going outside because of the possibility a meteor could come hurtling from space and land right on your head (in which case, staying home won’t save you, either). It’s extraordinarily unlikely a lock- and safe-cracking expert with a crate of tools will target your house, so protecting your Hi-Point with a multi-million-dollar DNA-and-retinal-scanning biometric vault is probably a little extreme, especially if you intend to use that gun in the much-less-unlikely event of a home invasion by common street thugs.
The long and short is, it’s NEVER going to be 100% secure, so criticizing an otherwise-good product for not being perfect is not constructive. As the saying goes, “Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” At some point, you have to decide for yourself what is “secure/safe enough” based on the value of your stuff, your perceived threats, your need for accessibility, and your relative price point. Implement that, and move on.
All comments here are valid, but the “stick a magnet on the lock and get a free shotgun” seems to be a cheap, easy, and fast way for criminals to operate.
That is correct. Know what type of shotgun retaining system is in use. Break in to the squad car while it is on patrol but while no cop is in or watching. And have the hard to control super magnet.
It is easier to use the hand cuff key.
Don’t forget “don’t get a part of your anatomy stuck between the magnet and a bit of random metal (car door, house door, ect).
Ask Congresswoman Val Demings. While she was the Sheriff of Orange County Florida, her duty weapon was stolen from her car. That same year, Orange County SWAT had a machine gun stolen right from a patrol car.
BTW- There is no guarantee that the key required will be a handcuff key- but every one of those locks has a solenoid that uses an electromagnet.