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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and firearms
Message-ID: <569@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 19:38:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 19:38:44 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <568@ttidcc.UUCP> regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) writes:
>(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.)

According to my tear-gas licensing class it  only  works  if  you  get  the
assailant  in  the  face  or genitals and may not work then if they've been
drinking or are on drugs.  It  takes  about  30  seconds  to  wick  through
clothing, during which time you can become very dead.

Having once clumsily got some on me I can testify that it didn't bother  my
leg  a  bit, though it's _very_ nasty stuff to get up your nose (you had to
be there (-: ).  I leave the testing on the genitals to the  masochists  in
the crowd.
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