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Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
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SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,
On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 [email protected] (Igor) wrote:
> Re: peaceful people in your house. Did you ever have bad dreams? Did
> you ever have guests in your house?
I have had guns, bad dreams and guests in my house all at the
same time, many times. So far, I've managed to avoid shooting
anyone.
> Imagine that you have a guest who at 4am woke up and went to
> the bathroom. Then you see a bad dream how you are being
> robbed, see the guy in the dark, forget that he is your guest,
> and shoot him. Not very pretty, huh?
Not pretty but fortunately very unlikely. I can imagine
everything you said except forgetting someone is in my house.
When I have someone under the mantle of my protection, my senses
and my awareness are *hightened* not reduced.
Okay, so this is my excuse to tell my L.Neil Smith gun story.
On my way driving to the East Coast, I stopped over for a night
with Smith. If you are familiar with his writing you might
imagine that his house is no stranger to firearms. That night
I got up to (guess what) go to the bathroom. On my way back
to the couch where I was sleeping, I was attacked by...
Neil's cat. It reached out from under a table and scratched my
foot. I was afraid he would go for my face or something once I
was asleep again, so I went to Neil's room to ask him to put the
cat someplace. Neil, wearing nothing but his shorts and a BIG
.44 automag came out to see what I wanted. I told him and he
put the cat in the basement. I thanked him and said the gun
wasn't necessary as I didn't want him to shoot the cat. His
response was, "I wasn't planning on shooting the cat." Gulp!
And yet I live. I'll trust a gunnie over a jackbooted ninja
any time and any place.
S a n d y
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