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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and abused females
Message-ID: <521@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-May-85 00:29:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 00:29:19 1985
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In Message <485@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes:
>> 
>> Someone suggested letting women carry firearms. Sounds
>> good to me. Any of you ladies need firearms training?
>> I'll teach you to shoot if you live in the Chicago area.
>> Note, no smiley faces.
>
>So your solution to violence is more violence?  I simply don't understand
>that frame of mind.  The only effective way to stop violence is to not start
>it.  "Let the buck stop here."  Sure, it will take many generations.  I know
>I won't be here to see it, but I'd like to think that my refusal to
>purposely harm other people might help someone else down the road.  
>
>This is not to say that I wouldn't fight off someone trying to hurt me.  I
>would and I have.  However, I only used as much force as necessary to get him
>away from me.  Then I ran as fast as I could.  I see no point in blowing a
>hole in a person just because he's sick.  That just brings me down to his
>level.  I would rather work toward a healthier society that would be free of
>that kind of violence.
>
>				Sarah E. Dugan

Self-defense is not violence.  And having and knowing how to use a gun is
not the same thing as "blowing a hole in a person".  A bullet in the knee
or foot is a relatively safe and effective way of using "as much force as
necessary to get him away".  Nobody said you have to aim for his face. And
with a little luck, you won't have to fire it at all.  There are not a lot
of folks (even sick ones) who want to stick around and argue with a gun
(but you better be knowledgable about using it anyway).

-- 

--JB                                             "The giant is awake."

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