Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!srm 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 Lines: 18 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 {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA