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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff Message-ID: <185@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 11:33:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.185 Posted: Sat Jun 29 11:33:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:10:42 EDT References: <191@cuuxa.UUCP> <2919@sdcc3.UUCP> <2301@sun.uucp> <257@kontron.UUCP> <2568@randvax.UUCP> <285@kontron.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 48 > > Rape and other violent crimes are deterred almost daily in this country > by the use of firearms; news accounts of such actions are quite common. There are also accounts in the news as often of people being wounded or killed by their own weapons which were takenfrom them by their attacker and this number also includes police officers and military personnel who are supposedly better trained in the use of firearms and self-defense techniques than any ** avaerage ** citizen. As nearly as I can determine in real-time conversations (face to face) with many different people the general type of individual who makes the above statements falls into one of two groups: 1) A devout member of the NRA complete with pro-firearms bumper stickers. 2) Someone who has not given thought to the "wild-west theory" of social relationships. To paraphrase a "fictional charater" Lazarus Long held that if everyone wore a gun as a matter of course he would just as soon live where there were no people. Of course He held that preferance anyhow so it might not be of much value. ~~~ (o o) ************************ jeanette l. zobjeck |WMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM /MWMW| * CONSERVE WATER * ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie |MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMW | WMWM| * -*-*-*-*-*-*- * _________I_I________|/_____ * SHOWER WITH A * * FRIEND * ************************ -- ~~~ (o o) ************************ jeanette l. zobjeck |WMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM /MWMW| * CONSERVE WATER * ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie |MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMW | WMWM| * -*-*-*-*-*-*- * _________I_I________|/_____ * SHOWER WITH A * * FRIEND * ************************