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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP ([Oded Anoaf Feingold])
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Rape, abused females, firearms, Goetz
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 18:00:18 EDT
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	Re women carrying firearms:
>   Would you like to go thru what Mr. Bernard Goetz is going thru ? Think
>   about it before considering the above suggestion seriously.
					(Sanjay Tikku)

I think Mr. Goetz should not be used as an example of anything except what
_not_ to do.  But, accepting worst-case scenarios of facing his legal
troubles, consider the alternatives:  Mr. Goetz stood to lose his wallet - a
woman facing a rapist doesn't know whether she'll be left alive afterward.

Of the women I know, willingness to own/carry arms goes up with age.  That
says something about the effect of longer experience with our society.
[Maybe my sample space is skewed.  The younger ones are mainly students.]

Hence I think Mr. Tikku's suggestion is worth considering, but not a
showstopper.  
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