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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Subject: Re: mugger repellant
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Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 01:44:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 01:44:47 1987
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> I'm finding out that some of the stuff on the market is no good
> and instead of stopping a criminal, it would just irritate him more. 
> I know the stuff they use in the military is potent stuff...

Be warned that tests have demonstrated that strongly motivated people can't
reliably be stopped even by the military tear agent ("CS") (technically it's
not a gas), although it certainly would discourage anyone who wasn't pretty
damn determined...  I trust your wife knows that even a fairly good tear
agent isn't going to be a magic wand, any more than a handgun would be.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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