Dear Netters,
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Nory wrote:
=%ORegardless of your calculations, it's pretty tough to claim you fired
=%Ofour shots in self-defense. I would think one shot would have been
=%Osufficient to stop the approaching attacker.
Depends on the weapon. During the early years of the US colonization of
the Philipines, there was a problem with the side arms issued to US
military not being powerful enough to knock down machete wielding
guerrillas before the assailant could hack the soldiers to bits. The .45
was developed to provide knock-down capability.
Presumably like LBCs, British officer's sidearms were equally not up to
the task. (Obligatory LBC content)
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=%O-NORY
=%ODon't assume that because you have found one problem, you have found the
=%OONLY problem.
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"Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance"
John J. Peloquin
Molecular Biology &
Biochemistry
3205 BioSciences II
UC IRVINE
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