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From: br@duke.UUCP (Balu Raman)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: Personal Defense
Message-ID: <5766@duke.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 12:22:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 20 12:22:35 1985
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Reply-To: br@duke.UUCP (Balu Raman)
Organization: Duke University
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Summary: 

In article <478@cybvax0.UUCP> fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) writes:
>In article <430@usl.UUCP> jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) writes:
>>...
>>My  own feeling is that weapons, whatever they may be (including martial
>>arts), are dangerous not only to other local citizens, but even to one's
>>self  if one is UNTRAINED in using them ...
>
>In the hands of an incompetent a blender can be dangerous.
>Does that mean we should ban blenders ?
>Impose outrageous penalties for their misuse ?
>
>
>Rick
>
I have seen enough of such convoluted argument. Surely a blender's purpose
is not to blend humans. I haven't yet seen or heard an incompetent kill someone
while handling a blender. I only wish you can say the same thing for weapons,
whose sole purpose is to destroy something or somebody.
Balu