Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff Message-ID: <176@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 21:46:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.176 Posted: Mon Jun 24 21:46:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:04:04 EDT References: <191@cuuxa.UUCP> <2919@sdcc3.UUCP> <2301@sun.uucp> <257@kontron.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 39 > Gee, Sunny, I think you need to keep up with rapidly improving technology. > Samuel Colt perfected a high-tech device just last century which makes a > 100 pound weakling (regardless of sex) the equal of a 200 pound ogre. It's > called a firearm. Go ahead! Improve the species! Scatter whatever it is > that a rapist keeps in his brain cavity all over the sidewalk! > > "God made men --- Col. Colt made them equal." > The apparent lack of the use of that same cranial cavity and the ocular facilty with which it is equipped seem to allow this kind of reasoning to flourish.(sp) Since most people who own guns for self defense have difficulty hitting the side of a barn while on a firing range how do you expect them to be "equalized" in a situation where everything which happens moves so terribly fast. From what I have heard and read in the news accounts of rapes the majority of attacks begin from behind and so the "colt equalizer" is of little or no use at all unless the individual is walking along with the weapon in her hand, safety off, and a round in the chamber and the hammer cocked. Maybe I'm wrong though...... Tell you what.... Arm 100 women in any city you like, or small town, and then walk up and say something like "Nice evening isnt BANG". jeanette l. zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie ================================================================================ The preceding thoughts have been brought to you through the courtesy of Murgatroyd's Gun Shop. The opinions are my own. ================================================================================