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response 100 of 106:
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Dec 28 03:21 UTC 2000 |
Why the exception? (ref. penultimate para.)
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aaron
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response 101 of 106:
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Dec 28 03:35 UTC 2000 |
Um... We're supposed to be impressed because undercover cops managed
to "outdraw" a criminal armed with a *toy*? Did it at least fire
suction cup darts which could have taken one of the cops' eyes out?
Little plastic discs? Come on.
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ashke
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response 102 of 106:
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Dec 28 15:21 UTC 2000 |
Okay, so not only do you act paranoid and carry it around, but then you think
that by reaching for it you have the drop on someone? Lovely. Only if they
have one out, or can do something to you before you get it out.
And as is always the question: whom do you decide for? If you leave out the
crooks, crazies, and kids, at what limits to you set those names? Are we
talking a felony? b felony? a class d felony? or can we include
missdemeors? too many parking violations? only violent offenses? Once
again, you're getting into shaky ground.
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scott
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response 103 of 106:
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Dec 29 23:04 UTC 2000 |
Russ, I'm continually amazed at these scenarios you come up with. Somebody
confronts you, and *you* have the element of surprise? Heh.
At the dojo I train at we have at least a couple of cops as students. They're
trained that if somebody with a gun gets within 10-15 feet there's no point
in trying to get your own gun out in time. That's why they study martial
arts.
Damn, I should have been clipping stories out of the paper when I was on
vacation. One was about the guy who went postal in his dot-com workplace.
He didn't have any kind of criminal record! But somehow he ended up using
his guns to kill people, even though he wasn't a criminal to begin with.
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aaron
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response 104 of 106:
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Jan 5 14:03 UTC 2001 |
Unbelievable. You must have the facts wrong. :*
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scott
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response 105 of 106:
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Jan 5 14:32 UTC 2001 |
Oh, and I and remember the other story now. Seems a woman had been raped,
even though she told the attacker she had a gun in her purse. "You better
use it now", he told her, then dragged her off.
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aaron
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response 106 of 106:
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Jan 5 14:50 UTC 2001 |
Obviously, she had the element of surprise on her side.
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