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From: dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: re: home defense
Message-ID: <280@zaphod.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 23:45:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 23:45:24 1985
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References: <1178@hound.UUCP> <27200001@gypsy.UUCP> <268@zaphod.UUCP> <621@lll-crg.ARPA> <272@zaphod.UUCP> <955@mhuxt.UUCP>
Reply-To: dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz)
Organization: Develcon Electronics, Saskatoon, SK
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Summary: 

I previously wrote:
>> >> ....  If you want to
>> >> find out if you have the guts to kill another person, first go out deer
>> >> hunting with a borrowed rifle.  After you have shot the deer in the gut
>> >> and it is lying on the ground with its innards pouring out, if you can
>> >> calmly walk over and put that last bullet in its head (or heart) and
>> >> then get a good nights sleep, then you MIGHT have what it takes.

In article <955@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) replies:
>
>    So, after having trudged up and down mountainsides ...
>
>    And this guy thinks you might have trouble sleeping!  Only if you're too 
>dim to realize that there is no moral difference between killing a deer and
>ordering a quarter pounder (with or without cheese) at McD's.

I don't believe the knee-jerk reaction...who cares about moral
differences.  Some people can kill other creatures -- fish or ants or deer
or people -- and some cannot.  Some people pay others to do their
killing for them.  I'm sure all of us know at least one person who won't
kill a mosquitoe but will wolf down (heaven help them) McD's hamburgers.

The question is still where YOU fall in the spectrum.  If you have the stuff,
good.  Get a gun, and use it for home defense.  If you don't, then don't
fool around with false courage.  And don't try to put courage into
someone else (eg your wife, husband, ...) if they aren't prepared to
accept it.