Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!abnjh!tptest From: tptest@abnjh.UUCP (Unix Dcom Group) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles Subject: Re: Rape: The Unresolved Trauma Message-ID: <938@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 14:38:22 EST Article-I.D.: abnjh.938 Posted: Sun Dec 9 14:38:22 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:23:41 EST References: <1855@sun.uucp> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.women:3736 net.singles:4795 [My first posting to net.singles.] Sonny has hit the nail on the head: rape is not considered as serious a crime as tax evasion or failure to pay overdue parking tickets. There is no serious deterent offered against the would-be rapist via the criminal "justice" system. I know that *Ms.* magazine bemoaned that "A Gun Is No Fun", but I think that any individual has the right to take any measures necessary to preserve life and limb, including the carrying of weapons upon the person. It is unfortunate, but the only real deterent to a would-be rapist is the certainty of immediate mutilation or death at the hands of the intended victim. A public confrontation after the rape is not quite the same thing. An ounce of prevention is still worth more than consoling the victim after the fact. Since few of us can afford armed guard escorts, the only solution that I see, is women willing to be responsible for their own protection. The martial arts classes have been a step in the right diection, but no rapist will argue with a .45 . Jon Kaplowitz "No one ever raped a .38"