SEC: going armed?

The Low Willow (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:28:54 -0800 (PST)


(SECurity)

} >those storage capacitors are always so bulky. Seriously, Eric, anyone
} >who refuses to go armed gets the repression they deserve. if you live in
} >that kind of neighborhood, not doing so is simple suicide in my book.

I have the impression that in most areas, most urban ones at least,
getting caught carrying a concealed weapon without a permit is rather
illegal. Such as a box cutter. And in many areas getting such a permit
-- or permission to have a gun at all -- is hard. One could estimate
the chance of running into a mugger in a situation where being invisibly
armed was useful as being less than the chance of police finding one's
gun somehow and getting upset. And one could carefully live in a
usually good neighborhood and still get caught by the rare mugger.

Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix

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