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From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 11:33:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 11:33:40 1985
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> 
> 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.

  
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