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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape, guns and teargas
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 17:23:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 17:23:09 1985
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To set the record straight, the voice of experience enters:

	In a freak accident of being in the right place at the right
	time, I was accidentally teargassed in the face and neck and
chest while at a friends' house, with a full blast of about 3 or 4
seconds from a distance of only 2 feet.  Yes, it stung like hell, and
yes, I was seriously coughing...  but I was not incapacitated from
either defending myself or attacking someone.  And I was neither doped
up nor angry.  The irritation of being gassed would only have increased
my determination to do bodily harm to the perpetrator of the gas
attack, had it not been a friend and an acidental discharge.
Therefore, I must point out that while teargas does give a little help
to a woman beset by an attacker, it does not at all obviate the need to
either fight physically, or flee.

				Sunny
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