Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Re: mod.rec.guns: call the POLICE? (was Gun selection) Message-ID: <1717@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 13:55:24 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1717 Posted: Tue Nov 18 13:55:24 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 21:51:15 EST References: <1570@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 39 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: Bruce Coorpender In-Reply-To: <1636@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Article: 11:15 >> [another voice heard from] >> ...My primary mission is to survive, and consider >> that the best way to do so is to be behind my water bed armed. ... >> >> ...If anyone enters my house at night, I >> would be afraid that I COULD be hurt, and would take all possible measures >> to kill the intruder. I have the provincial notion that this reduces >> recidivism. > >I find it difficult to reconcile those two paragraphs; can you elaborate? >If you're behind your water bed (armed or not), you aren't taking all >possible measures to kill an intruder. If you're seeking him out with >intent to kill, your primary mission is not survival. Personally, I tend >to agree that reducing recidivism is a good idea, but I'm not enthusiastic >about risking my hide to do it. I take the behind-the-water-bed view. > > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry Request for elaboration - Thanks, Henry; I wasn't quite clear. I figure that the water bed has much better stopping power than body armor. Second that if the intruder does come so far as to enter my bedroom, then he means me no good. In that situation, I would do everything possible to blow the guy away before he (or she, lets be non-chauvinstic) is even aware that I am there. I keep a .45 auto loaded with hollow points as a bedside weapon. I agree that to keep weaponry without practice is dangerous. In Oregon, defending my domicile and life from a protected position from an intruder should be imminently justifiable. This is based on lectures from District Attorneys here. I would much prefer to kill the intruder than merely to injure them. With the jail space problem we have, he could be out and back in no time. BC