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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape, guns and teargas
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:09:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 18:09:13 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
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

Ms Experience ---
   Using this example with your previous assertions of gun-toting:
what do you think the attacker's reaction would be if you pulled
out a gun and/or hesitated for a split second and/or missed
your target? Maybe...just maybe...the same feelings that you
felt when tear-gassed? Maybe worse? Maybe you'd survive the
return attack? Maybe?
   Maybe you better not carry a gun....

-- 
                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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