Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!reed!lydgate 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 Article-I.D.: reed.818 Posted: Fri Jan 18 07:31:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:15:08 EST References: <118@decwrl.UUCP> <210@talcott.UUCP> <479@ukma.UUCP> <360@spp2.UUCP> Reply-To: lydgate@reed.UUCP (Chris Lydgate) Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.flame:7887 net.politics:6996 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