🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:15:54 GMT, nospam@nospam.net (Ion Storm) was
kind enough to write:

<snip>

>Personally I would be more discrete and quit about the whole affair, look at 
>Elmer Gatz the New Yorker who shot those youths attacking him on the subway.
>If he would have not run his mouth so much he probably wouldn't have gone to 
>jail.   

I believe you are referring to David Bernard (or Bernhard?) "Bernie"
Goetz.

Carrying an unlicenced, concealed, loaded gun on a NYC subway is
illegal.  Having a gun available for self-defense in your own home is
perfectly legal in any civilized place.

Goetz did indeed shoot his mouth off to excess, but IIRC the
persecution based its case on sympathy for the injuries suffered by
teh poor unfortunate "kids" who were just trying to get some cigarette
money.

I liked Goetz' description of how the perps stopped being human and
turned into silouette targets.  Great prose unless you are a criminal
defendant. :-) Surely it's Webbed somewhere, but I'm home sick today
and way to lazy to track it down right now.

-- 
Reverend David Voth, South Park Militia Clench
Supreme Supervisor of the Church of the SubGenius
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