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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Blow 'em away
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 23:00:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 23:00:13 1985
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In Message <698@teklds.UUCP> dougs@teklds.UUCP (Doug Schwartz) writes:
>You must be joking.  One of the commandments of martial arts is that if
>you have gotten yourself in a situation where you must use a weapon you
>don't try this "shoot em in the knee/gouge em in the eye" b*ullsh*t
>you see on TV.  It's too damn easy to screw up and miss.  If you are
>cornered by someone go for their torso and pull the trigger until they drop.
>It's better if you blow them away than if you just wound them -- less hassle.

It's frightening to realize that people who think that "it's better to
blow them away than wound them" are in fact the ones who are most likely
to survive.  Longevity notwithstanding, however, I *DO NOT* agree.  *IF*
the attacker does not run at the sight of the gun, and *IF* the attacker
does not run when you fire a shot near (but not through) his head, and
*IF* the attacker does not run when you shoot at his legs/feet, *MAYBE*
then you should "blow him away". *NOT* before.  Certainly not *FIRST*.

Not that I wouldn't want to, mind you.  There's a large chunk of my
heart that would dearly love to rid the face of the earth of all the
vile scum I can.  But the whole rest of me just can't live with the
idea of "blowing them away on sight".  That's the mindset that cost us
a helluva lot of native Americans.  I'm not saying that budding young
rapists and native Americans are equal in any sense.  But the "blow 'em
away as a *first* resort" attitude is equally repulsive in either case.

>Also, you better be prepared to use a weapon if you exhibit it.

*That* I agree with.

>Get some martial arts training and some time in at the firing range

That too.

>Doug Schwartz

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--JB                                             "The giant is awake."

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