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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: self defense, etc.
Message-ID: <2195@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 04:05:46 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2195
Posted: Fri Jan 11 04:05:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:11:12 EST
References: <177@tekred.UUCP> <4043@ucbvax.ARPA> <789@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Summary: 

In article <789@reed.UUCP> lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate) writes:
>
>Milo, have you thought about what you're saying? Some
>transient may wander on to your farm and steal a chicken--
>and you advocate a "Shoot first, ask questions later."
>attitude.  Do you value your chicken more than the life
>of another person?  

Forget Milo's rhetoric.  When he had another human being in his crosshairs--
one who, to a pretty high degree of certainty, had perpetrated some truly
awful crimes--he didn't pull the trigger.  What would you have done if you
had your gun trained on someone you were sure had been terrorizing you and
had inflicted an awful and painful death on more than one of your dogs?  

Give Milo some credit for a mature and humane decision in a crisis.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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