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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape, guns and teargas
Message-ID: <1338@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 18:58:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 18:58:43 1985
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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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:
> >    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.
>

   Oh brother....

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

   ...you said it, not me....think about it....


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

 
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"...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."