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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (117904)3/13/2008 4:06:57 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
Ehhh?

Correct me if I get any of this wrong.

Situation,

Woman is stalked and chased down a dark isolated country road by a man violent enough to force her off the road.

Man goes after her, alone in her car.

She pulls a gun and the man is deterred from (we can only imagine)

Your concerns:
"What if the man gets shot, wounded or killed with no witnesses?"

Why would that happen? Maybe, because the woman wasn't bluffing and he came one inch too close for comfort. Maybe because she was nervous and it went off before she made a conscious commitment to shoot. Maybe you were thinking something else.

"She would have been in a pickle..."

She was in a pickle. She solved that problem using her gun. That's what the story was about.

" Was she trained and safe using the gun. "

In a formal course you mean? Or safe use compared to what, not able to protect herself with the gun, or put others at undue risk? You read the outcome. How can you even ask that question?

"He could have claimed he was merely trying to pass her."

Would it be a mess for the cops to sort out? Could they get the wrong idea? What if the man was a liar?

My guess is the cops would have to consider all those things. The man was probably a liar. Just trying to pass doesn't jive with the evidence... she pulled over, he went to her car door then boosh close range bullet hole, matching window hole, blood all over the door the ground etc.

Slim chance she could have some difficulty with an imperfect justice system.

But of course if this decent law abiding woman had no gun, there would have been no risk of harm to the attacker and things would have worked out peachy, ... for the assailant.

Is that the way you had it figured?
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