Re: children defending selves
[email protected]
In a message dated 10/27/2003 4:05:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
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[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
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[email protected]
In a message dated 10/27/2003 4:05:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
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[email protected]
In a message dated 10/27/2003 4:05:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[email protected] writes:
We know how to 'make' weapons out of so many things....that's useful.
Know what to scream...."Help me", sadly doesn't work as well as "Fire" or
"Stop! Thief!"
We have a family friend who swears that we should all carry guns to protect
ourselves. I worked with battered women for many years, and my partner with
rape survivors, and we worked with this cool self-defense expert who said that
carrying guns are a very bad idea. Most assaults are made by people who are
NOT carrying a weapon, so the result of having one means that there's always a
gun on the scene, and you might not end up being the person controlling it.
He said that being aware of items like keys, ways to use your body, a heavy
purse, etc, were much more effective things if you needed to use them.
Ultimately, he said, it's better to survive, even if something terrible happens to
you. You can heal from even terrible things. But if you're killed, it's just over.
Kathryn
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