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From: west@utai.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re. Personal Defense
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 21:18:06 EST
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Summary: 

Ken Arndt writes:
>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.  

   GOOD GRIEF!  You sound like you are in a war situation...

>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.

  Well if this sort of thing is normal in the USA, then I apologize.  You
*ARE* at war, and it seems to be a kill or be killed situation.  My only
question is that since many Americans are wealthy enought to move, why
don't they?  (I'm certain Northern Ireland would seem like a picnic compared
to Main Street USA...)	Then again, many who could move still live in Beruit,
so I suppose there is some psychological reason.

  Tom West
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