RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

Statistics from who? Actually most states that allow citizens to carry weapons for there own protection have seen a decline in muggings and things of that nature. A criminal is less likely to try and mug someone if the criminal thinks that the person is hiding a .357!

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Harter
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:41 PM
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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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