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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:01:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:01:22 1985
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> > 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.