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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: NYC subway hero
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 13:56:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 13:56:00 1985
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Perhaps the law assumes that punks were carrying sharpened screwdrivers
because they didn't intend to use them.  Therefore Goetz was not entitled
to use force in his self-defence.

After all, don't bank robbers carry guns because they don't intend to use
them either?  As proof that the guns are only for show and not for use,
they are never loaded, right?

-- Norman Diamond

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