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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Missing Handgun - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 22:31:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 22:31:19 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Sep 23 12:05:00 1983


/***** uiuccsb:net.flame / uiucdcs!renner /  7:41 pm  Sep 22, 1983 */
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.
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I don't understand. If the point of having the gun is to stop this person from
attacking you and his wife with a tire iron, what is wrong with using some
other realiable method of stopping him?
   If the point is to stop him, not kill him, Mace would seem to be effective
for the purpose.
   From your note, I gather that you'd rather use an Uzi or a small tank
rather than mace. Why the emphasis on killing? I would think that stoppping
the crime is whats important. If Karl was carring a gun, there would have
been a dead person. That's not an injury?

	Dirk "Killing means never having to say you're sorry" Grunwald

	University of Illinois
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