Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids

[snow]

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.
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snow at smoke.suba.com