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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: Mon, 24-Jun-85 21:46:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 21:46:07 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."
>         

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




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The preceding thoughts have been brought to you through the courtesy of 
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The opinions are my own.
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