Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!cybvax0!fbp From: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.legal Subject: Re: Re: Personal Defense Message-ID: <478@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 13:29:18 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.478 Posted: Fri Apr 19 13:29:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 03:45:24 EST References: <350@idis.UUCP> <497@abnji.UUCP> <572@ahuta.UUCP> <498@lll-crg.ARPA> <419@utai.UUCP> <430@usl.UUCP> Reply-To: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.politics:8590 net.flame:9373 net.legal:1573 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 ...!cybvax0!fbp "A likely story. I don't believe a word of it."