On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, David Sternlight wrote:
At 1:49 AM -0700 7/20/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 6:42 AM 7/19/96, snow wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Doug Hughes wrote:
If people break into my house with the element of surprise wearing all black in the middle of the night, they have the element of surprise If you don't reach for a gun, at least you have the 'chance' for restitution on your side. If you're dead, you have no options. If you are trained a certain way, you _are_ going to reach for Snow is absolutely right! Surprised in the night, with no clear identification of the entrants (and yelled "Police!!" claims are used by home invaders, so I would not trust this anyway), a trained person will instinctively reach for his weapon. Probably something to do with flushing dope down the toilet, or destroying evidence. Perhaps it's too much to expect them to disconnect the sewer line and hit your interior with a water hose and an electricity cut-off before raiding it.
Of course escalating a war against your own citizens makes more sense than legalizie the crap and letting the idiots die. After all, big brudder has the right to control the substances I put into my boddy. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com