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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (Aiken Drum)
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Subject: Re: A screw, indeed!
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 16:24:57 EST
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> In light of the recent item about the gun-toting guy on the subway, I have
> due cause to be royally pissed off:
> 
> He was ''attacked'' -- no one is sure what really happened -- by four
> known criminals carrying ''sharpened screwdrivers''.  He shot them and 
> belted.
> 
> I have been carrying a screwdriver around in my belt for over a year now,
> and although some people might get the wrong idea, it is a *screwdriver*
> as far as I'm concerned, and not a weapon.  If I tried to use it as such
> it would probably do me more harm than good, especially in the eyes of the
> law.  However there is no law currently on the books *against* carrying it
> around, especially since it isn't concealed and all that.  I find it 
> immeasurably useful for all kinds of things.  I'm a technical person, after
> all, and I'm very often in a position where I need to take something apart
> to get the job done.  Out comes the Stanley, and the job gets done.  
> Furthermore, it isn't sharpened, although just about any screwdriver with the
> factory blade shape could penetrate a body pretty easily if driven with 
> sufficient force.
>

Gee, ya know I somehow don't think I'd be as scaired of a telephone lineman
type with a factory sharpened screwdriver in his pocket as I would be of
4 hoodlum types with non-factory sharpened screwdrivers in their belts.
If a lineman type asked me for 5 bucks, I wouldn't think he was robbing
me, I'd think he was just robbed himself and needed cash to get home.