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Re: Pepper Spray article -- quite fascinating

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From: keethie
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00
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Have I missed something or was I just hallucinating the dramatic
statistical drop in the crime rate in the U.S.? Seems like the most useful
thing to own a firearm for today is plinking--more fun, too (tastes
great/less filling argument to follow).

In article <dberkes-0101981153160001@192.168.1.30>,
dberkes@marvin.webcom.com (Dan Berkes-Lemos) wrote:

>In article <68gks0$7gf$1@nnrp1.crl.com>, pstrogenANTISPAM@crl.com wrote:
>
>>  With the dramatic increase in the incidence of asthma, among 
>>  children and adults alike, the continued unregulated sale of
>>  this product is sheer stupidity!
>
>With the dramatic increase in the incidence of rapes, muggings, and other
>violent crime, the expectation that the police will provide any sort of
>protection once you take a self-defense measure out of the hands of plain
>old ordinary citizens is sheer stupidy. 
>
>Or would you rather that the citizenry arm themselves with the latest
>Saturday night specials instead?
>
>Speaking of which, since it seems to be fairly easy to purchase an illicit
>firearm if one really wants one, imagine what regulation and prohibition
>would do for the distribution of pepper spray.
>
>-- 
> Dan Berkes-Lemos  \\//  dberkes@marvin.webcom.com
>"This life is stranger than fiction" -- Duran Duran
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Subject: Re: Pepper Spray article -- quite fascinating
Date: 1998/01/01
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