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From: lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Message-ID: <818@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 07:31:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 07:31:11 1985
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Reply-To: lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Summary: 

In article <360@spp2.UUCP> jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) writes:


>In those circumstances (4 armed assailants and me armed with a
>revolver), I would have killed all 4 (or been killed myself).  


If this were indeed the choice, then I would admire your
decision. But do you believe that someone *has* to die?
What would you have to lose by just revealing your weapon
and warning your muggers that you can kill them? Surely
the point of a weapon is to deter someone from doing
something that you don't want. But if you place any value
at all on human life, (and I assume you do, reading your
postings in net.abortion), then you should seek to deter
without seeking to kill. When you point a gun at my head,
I will do what you tell me to do.  

If I were in this situation, I would fork over my money.
Five, ten, twenty, one hundred dollars just don't mean
*that* much to me. Incidentally, I spent a summer commuting
on the Dyre Avenue subway, all the way into the Bronx, at
2 am. I was frightened sometimes, but I never had a
problem.

	Just lucky, I guess.

		Chris Lydgate