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From: mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker)
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Subject: Re: A new self-defense idea!
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 02:20:21 EST
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[guns don't kill kids...kids kill kids]

> 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!!!

An interesting thought.  Like you said, though:  it won't be useful 'till
someone can come up with an immobilizing agent that not only works nearly
instantaneously, but can't overdose and/or kill the victim accidentally.

Ahh, don't you mean 'jerk from your hip holster; it's too big to conceal
with a conventional shoulder holster?'  Visions of Dirty Harry walking
through Toumbstone come to mind.

I personally like the 'taser' devices that have come out not-all-that-
recently.  A *very* bright light attached to a little device that
shoots little wires into the assaliant and runs something like 40,000
volts through him.  It looks like a pocket flashlight.  I've seen it
demonstrated; it seems to be pretty effective against a single assailant.

-- 
-  Larry Baker @ The University of Texas at Austin
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