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From: crs@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: rape and firearms
Message-ID: <28437@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 10:19:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 10:19:08 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.

Hey!  He's Charles -- *I'm* Charlie  (:->)

> 
> 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?

I agree with you a hundred percent.  (Of course, if one defines the
owner of a firearm as a violent person, then I guess we are both wrong
by definition.)  There are plenty of non-violent uses for firearms.
Surely target shooting cannot be considered violence.  Frankly, I'm
not convinced that self-defense should be considered violence; rather
it is defense *against* violence -- a different thing entirely.

There are some other things I would like to say in this matter but I
don't think that they are germane to net.women so I'll refrain.

> 
> 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.)

Again, I agree.

-- 
All opinions are mine alone...

Charlie Sorsby
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