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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: rape and firearms
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:13:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 16:13:28 1985
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>This is a neat idea. Too bad it doesn't work. Non-violent people, in general
>don't buy firearms ("I wouldn't use it anyway").
>Charles Forsythe

Charlie, you better come up with some support for this claim if you don't
want to be entirely discredited for the rest of your natural life.

PLENTY of non-violent people purchase firearms, and for a variety of reasons.
I am one.  My father is one.  My ex-boss is one.  Shall I canvass everybody
I know with respect to gun-purchase and records of violence?  No, I'll leave
the exercise to you, the claimant.  Think you can handle it without blowing
it?

Adrienne Regard

(p.s., re the actual topic of rape and firearms -- seems to me teargas is
a slightly better idea.  Non-lethal [in case it gets turned against you] but
highly unpleasant [presuming you get the chance to use it against him] and
works at close quarters, on all parts of the body, 'wicked' by clothing if
necessary.)