[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:16:25 EDT
If it's Krav Maga with a shiv in your heel when out and a 12-gauge at home
huh? Kray Maga? Shiv? Is a 12-gauge a pistol or a rifle?
I used to have a large very property protective dog - I never bothered to
lock my doors. He bit 3 different people (including myself) and had to be put
down.
I live across the street from a transitional neighborhood which is
essentially filled with drugs, alcohol, and guns. Cops run through there a
dozen
times a day. On my side of the street are 4 very respectable middle-class
homes
(of which one is mine). The land across the street used to be open field I
rode gottland ponies through. Then some shmuck decided to put up dozens of
the most poorly and cheaply built apartments possible. I have deadbolts on my
doors, but the window locks are not very secure -- can be pushed with a
stick. I've had bikes and trash cans stolen from my driveway right up against
the
garage door. No one has attempted to break in yet. But....
My primary concern right now, though, is that I am temporarily
transportationless and do a great deal of walking. Past some not too great
neighborhoods. Hence my thought of portable mace or pepper spray. How hard
can it be to
point the nozzle in the right direction? And how far away does one have to
be for it to take effect, giving the macer or pepper-sprayer time to run to a
place of safety? I've also thought about guns that shoot rubber bullets.
Julie Krueger
w/ bigger problems than self-protection at the moment
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Julie wrote:
>I prefer either mace or pepper spray, depending on which does least
lasting >damage (something I keep putting off investigating).
ck: Don't use either of these unless you're pretty adept at some form of the
martial arts. You have to get close to your attacker for the sprays to be
helpful, and if you're that close, you're in serious jeopardy--in a position
of self-defense, you vs. your attacker. Disabling the attacker is your best
bet. Or, if you're a very fast runner, that's an option.
Holding a can of mace (illegal most places; it's really pepper spray they
talk about) may make you feel more protected than you actually are. People who
don't know self-defense tactics often mistakenly point the nozzle at
themselves. (Same as with guns.)
I think a woman needs to figure out what she feels comfortable with,
self-defensively, and follow through with the plan. If it's Krav Maga with a
shiv in
your heel when out and a 12-gauge at home, that's what it's gotta be.
Personally, I don't want guns in my house, but I'm now living in such a
dangerous
area (the neighborhood and the town) that I'm sick of it all.
Unfortunately, loads of the gunshot deaths in these parts are drive-by
shootings (not necessarily gang-on-gang!), and stupid scattershot gunplay, for
the
hell of it. Carjackings aren't uncommon, though, but by the time you reach
for a gun in your glove compartment, it's all over, one way or another.
Btw, can anyone here stand watching those CSI shows on TV? Isn't there
enough violence on the news to satisfy even the hungriest bloodthirsty person?
Or
are these TV shows (and news) feeding the hunger, as that experiment implied.
Carol
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