RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

Only if you disregard the number of criminal acts that are twarted due to brandishment where the gun is never fired. Add in the fact that most people really don't want to shoot a criminal, they just want the criminal to leave.

Paul Harvey(You know, the rest of the story, Good Day)

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Statistically, handguns bought for protection are more likely to be used against a family member (intentionally or otherwise) than against any "criminal element".

At 04:05 PM 5/17/01 -0800, you wrote:
>reality check.
>
>Consider the poignant implications of the recent anniversary of the
>Oklahoma city terrorism.
>
>The simple fact is that a very high percentage of professional women
>that have jobs like real estate sales requiring isolated contact with
>strangers *are* armed (as you state, many with "boutique" designer
>guns). it is because they have been assaulted or threatened, or are
>close to women that have told vivid stories of such.
>
>Employees at this campus are required to take *mandatory* "campus
>violence" workshops now. Last year a professor was severly beaten by
>some petty thieves after leaving a night class about 2 minutes walk
>from my office. Several years ago, someone held an admission
>counselor hostage at gun point in the building I work in. The person
>was upset that they weren't admitted to the university.
>
>regards,
>ep
>(unarmed, but unrepentantly politically incorrect)
>
>On 17 May 2001, at 13:16, Marianne Brooks wrote:
>
>Date sent: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:16:06 -0800
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
><ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>
> > SET MODE SILLY ON
> >
> > Damn, I *knew* I forgot to buy something on my last shopping trip to
> > Nordstroms!
> >
> > Note to self: - buy gun I didn't know I needed. Remember to purchase
> > extras for friends who don't have them either(the gift
> > that keeps
> > on taking?)
>
>...
>
>
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