Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff Message-ID: <295@kontron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:01:22 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.295 Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:01:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:26:24 EDT References: <191@cuuxa.UUCP> <2919@sdcc3.UUCP> <2301@sun.uucp> <257@kontron.UUCP> <176@ihlpl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 47 > > 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." > > > > 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. > I'm sorry you know such terrible shots. They must be pretty bad, because I don't consider myself a particularly capable marksman, and I have no problem hitting a rapist-sized target at 15 yards. More important, if you can't shoot a rapist at the more realistic distance of five feet, I doubt you can drive a car successfully either. > 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. > From what I have read, a great many rapes (and a lot of homicides against women) occur during residential burglaries. I have also read that rapists frequently approach the victim before the rape and see whether the reaction they get is a reaction of fear or not. Incidentally, the only useful way to carry a semiauto pistol is with a round in the chamber and the hammer cocked. ("Excuse me sir, I need to pull back the slide and chamber a round. Could you please wait a moment?") > 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 > Gee, when I carry a firearm, I don't shoot people for saying "Nice evening". A woman who has been raped is probably a little more hair-trigger than a woman who has not been raped --- even then, I sincerely doubt that any but the most tweaked are going to shoot a man just for saying "Nice evening", anymore then they are going to spray him with tear gas.