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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Firearms ownership (in the UK)
Message-ID: <953@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 11:54:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: kontron.953
Posted: Mon Jul 28 11:54:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Jul-86 03:29:25 EDT
References: <902@kontron.UUCP> <182@suneast.uucp> <923@kontron.UUCP> <1721@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <943@kontron.UUCP> <267@fai.UUCP>
Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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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

Nope.  Santa Monica.  The GOOD side of Los Angeles.

Clayton E. Cramer