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From: mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG)
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Subject: Re: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 12:25:57 EST
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> >What would you have to lose by just revealing your weapon
> >and warning your muggers that you can kill them? ...
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> I am refusing myself the luxury of forming an opinion on Mr Goetz until such
> time as the courts have a go at the overall situation. But in the  meantime,
> a lawyer friend of mine brought up this interesting point:

Mr. Goetz has not been indicted for Att. Murder. He has been indicted for
possesion only !!!!!!!! (See my letters of the past month).
Now do you think you can form an opinion ?????

> 
> Suppose you do what is  suggested  above,  that is, produce your weapon with
> appropriate warning on what you may do with it if not left alone.
> 
> Now what do you do if  ALL  FOUR  of  the attackers  in  fact  had  firearms
> themselves?  If you are not willing to fire at least once, you are  allowing
> the attackers the opportunity and  the time to produce their own weapons. If
> you  fire  at least once, you will have their undivided attention  and  they
> will do just about anything  you  tell them  to  do. And I don't necessarily
> mean  to fire *at* them; just firing, through the floor for example, or  the
> roof.
> 
> I bring this up simply because  I  had postulated  to  my lawyer friend that
> Goetz is probably going to get himself roasted (legally speaking) for having

I didn't and don't think so.

> fired without  sufficient  provocation, but  he proposed the above scenario,
> saying  that he's heard of such situations before, and that Goetz  may  very
> well get off on this basis.
> 
> As I said, I'm not forming an opinion yet; I just have some as-yet undefined
> feelings  that he went too far. But it is an interesting way to look at  the
> situation.

Start defining your feelings.

> 
> Whether or not he should have fired 4 times is another matter entirely.  But
> whether or not 1 shot was appropriate is still a good question.