| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Value and so on.... |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:45:36 -0400 |
>reasons for a citizen to hold a gun. And one of them is to defend himself.
Here's an interesting exercise. Find out what the response time for a 911
call is in your area. The agencies in question are required to hand out
that info to those who ask for it. And then consider this? Most violent
crime happens very quickly, the longest being rape (averaging about 15
minutes, according to teh FBI) and the shortest being "random" street
killing for the victem's money (at about a minute and half).
Someone sticks a knife in your kidney, and you are screwed. But which of
these is more valuble:
1) the life of a criminal
2) loss of physical ability due to a significant beating, resutling in
total disability or blindness
--OR--
the trauma of sexual assualt (murder is argueably the only thing worse,
but once you are dead, you are dead, you don't keep dying over and over
again for years on end)
Ask yourself that question. Answer honestly.
CyberRaven
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"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
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