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From: trio@idis.UUCP
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Subject: A new self-defense idea!
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 05:49:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 05:49:05 1985
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[this is a .357 mag bug killer]

I feel rather guilty planning to purchase a firearm for self defense, when some
of you in *certain* states can't do the same.  So, to ease my conscience, I
came up with this alternative.

Have you ever seen the guns they use to mark cattle or shoot tranquilizer
darts into animals (the same Nel-Spot 007 pistol used in the National Outdoor
Survival Games)?  Well, why not use them on the animals in the street?  Just
load up one of them darts with some incapacitating agent.  It's not a
firearm, technically, since it uses a CO2 cartridge to propel the projectile.

Thus, when some punk comes up to you, intending to do some serious damage
to your soon-to-be corpse, you pull out your gun (it's a rather nasty looking
beast) from your shoulder holster (it's too big to conceal with a conventional
hip holster), and BLAST him!!!

The only drawback is that someone has to develop a safe, yet effective, 
incapacitating agent.  I do not condone this use of the gun for defense
usage unless you check the laws carefully, preferably with the help of an 
attorney.  

But, then again, it does serve double duty, should you want to mark some
cattle!
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Nick Trio                         -If you don't like the answer,
Grad Student - Sociology            don't ask the question-
U. of Pittsburgh
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