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- From: toman@bovine.uoregon.edu (Jay toman)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Women's self-defense success stories!
- Message-ID: <1k250hINNiu5@pith.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:43:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.052057.14896@trl.oz.au> <1jtekfINNj4r@pith.uoregon.edu> <C1F5II.816@apollo.hp.com>
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- In article <C1F5II.816@apollo.hp.com> stave@apollo.hp.com writes:
- >In article <1jtekfINNj4r@pith.uoregon.edu>, toman@bovine.uoregon.edu
- >(Jay toman) writes:
- >|> I'm not sure how this is a "success" story. He didn't assault her, she
- >|> assaulted him. You can't beat on somebody just because they annoy you,
- >|> or scare you. The situation you describe just doesn't sound like it warrants
- > ^^^^^
- >
- >I believe that Bernard Goetz(sp?) proved otherwise. He actually killed
- >someone because he felt threatened.
-
- He didn't just feel threatened, he WAS threatened, with a weapon !
- Sure, it's a very gray area, what's a real threat and what isn't,
- my point was that from my armchair-quarterback-hearing-it-second-hand
- position, the woman in the story freaked out and blew it big time .
-
- >
-
- J. Toman
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