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- From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Guns & self defense
- Message-ID: <1244@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:21:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.030648.4387@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes...
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- > ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley) writes:
- >
- >>gharlane@nextnet.csus.edu (Gharlane of Eddore) writes...
- >>> Don't count on it. On at least a couple occasions in my life, I
- >>> stayed alive solely because I happened to be carrying a semi-automatic
- >>> pistol and be competent in its use. When you're faced with a GROUP
- >>> of armed scum, unless you're as fast as greased lightning, a
- >>> revolver simply won't do the job. If I hadn't been carrying a
- >>> nice old Model 1911A-1 Colt, I'd have gotten killed.
- >
- >> You have made a very effective argument for being armed, but I noticed
- >>something that was missing. Most of the situations you describe are avoidable.
- >
- >I read his post again and did not see any avoidable situations listed.
- >
- >I figured maybe he is a regular poster and the situations you refered
- >to are in an older post of his? What are the avoidable situations
- >described by him that you are refering to?
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- Nope, his E-mail to me detailed the situation. There may have been a
- way out of his *specific* situation, but I don't see it. I am posting this view
- though because a marshal arts teacher I was once instructed by told me that
- there was *no* situation where one could not escape withouth the use of
- violence. The entire class tried to find holes in this and he carefully
- detailed a way out of each one. All involved non-violence and the class was
- taught to us just before a non-violent civil disobedience action.
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- I *know* that there must be a way out, but I am not the expert
- in the martial arts that my teacher was and I cannot find it. And that solution
- *does not* mean buying a house in a better neighborhood or living in a
- protective cage, it is simple and direct and occurs in the situation.
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- I wish I could remember the name of the marshal art that this
- "avoidance" philosiphy is contained in, but all I remember is the instructor's
- name was Mark and he taught the class in Trukee, CA in 1984 or 1985.
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- - Ashley
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