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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Missing Handgun - (nf)
Message-ID: <2937@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 23:26:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 23:26:34 1983
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uiucdcs!renner    Sep 22 19:41:00 1983


  >>     Why go to the extreme of needing a handgun? If you had shot this
  >>  wife beater, would the situation have really been any better than it
  >>  turned out?

Well, in my opinion, the situation *would* have been better.  I would 
prefer to see the wife-beater shot dead than to see his wife and others
smacked around with a tire iron.  But if Karl had carried a weapon, the most
probable outcome would have been no injuries at all.

Just a thought:  does NY law prohibit possession of shotguns?  A 12-gauge
would have worked just as well.