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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: Fri, 26-Jul-85 13:28:21 EDT
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> > To set the record straight, the voice of experience enters:
> > 
> > The irritation of being gassed would only have increased
> > my determination to do bodily harm to the perpetrator of the gas
> > attack
> > 				Sunny
> 
>                            --- Rob DeMillo writes:
> 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....

Or maybe I'd better hit my assailant immediately.

>                  /
>                =|--
>                = \
>                =
>              [][][]
> 
> "...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."

If you don't know what it does, then why are you aiming it at me?

If you don't know what it does, presume it's a weapon.

If it's a weapon, it's *always* loaded.  There are no *unloaded* weapons.

Never aim a loaded weapon at something you don't intend to destroy.

	Gun control:	Hitting your target, and nothing else.

				Sunny
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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)