Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: NYC subway hero Message-ID: <6842@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 13:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6842 Posted: Thu Jan 3 13:56:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 23:48:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 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 UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."