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Subject: Re. Personal Defense
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I carry several items.

A Sippo steel whip - Made in West Germany, closed at 5 1/2", extended at 13",
                     fits handly (with a clip) into a shirt/pants pocket.

A razor blade dispensor - taped (five blades that extend up to 1/2", double
                          sided).

At times (in NH a .380 auto - yes, it's a small cal. but at close range it is
          very effective) or camping in the public domains (pot growing and
          crazie country) a .44mag.

The knowledge of how to and the will to use the above.  

To my friends traveling on the Subways in NYC I suggest a warmed up chain saw.

As G. Gordon Liddy has pointed out, even a pencil properly handled can be an
effective weapon.

Hitting people with your hands - unless trained to do so - is for kids.

I also have a modest amount of Martial Arts training.  The amazing thing is
that it actually works!!!  I actually snapped a knife out of someone's hand
once.

Once I also confronted a crazie who broke through my folk's kitchen window
at night. (Of course I swelled up, turned green and split my shirt)  It was
one of those turn the corner in your own home and there's a stranger (in this
case white male) breaking through the window (he had his feet inside the house
 - this was in Newark, NJ naturally)  Anyway, he didn't have a gun - I'm still
here, eh?  I chased him off.

But especially for women and children I suggest a defense of a frame of mind
coupled with a modest amount of martial arts training to give that sense of
confidence that sheds the 'victim status' look so often sent out like a blood
sent before sharks.  Our culture portrays women and children as 'victims' of
physical violence and rarely as being able to face it.  There are signals
one sends out - body language, speech, etc. - that a 'bully' picks up on
and is attracted by.

Well, that's my two cents.

Regards,

Ken Arndt