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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Firearms ownership (in the UK)
Message-ID: <267@fai.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 14:06:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: fai.267
Posted: Thu Jul 24 14:06:43 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 06:47:55 EDT
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Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <943@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>
>[...] It has become
>pretty common the last fifteen years for burglars breaking into an
>occupied dwelling to rape the occupants -- regardless of sex.  (I have
>some friends to whom this happened.)
>
>I would prefer if confronting a burglar that HE be unarmed -- but I'm
>not at all willing to be unarmed when the burglar has a knife, or a
>baseball bat, or have to fight with three or four burglars at once.
>(Again, something that has happened to SEVERAL of my friends in 
>different incidents.)
***

Gadzooks, where do you live??  Your address header says Mountain View,
California.  I've lived there for years, as have a few of my friends,
and never heard of things like this happening to anyone I know.

I keep a 12 guage standing next to a few shells in my bedroom, but in
the 4 years or so since I got it, I haven't had any cause (even suspicious
noises, and I'm a *very* light sleeper) to pick it up.  You must come
from the bad side of New York or something.


				Ron
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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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