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To: KLP who wrote (38954)	4/11/2004 1:19:02 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793839

<<<If not, how would you suggest preventing it?>>> I don't know how we got here, but I am going to be foolish enough to try to do my best to end this discussion in a civil manner. I would be indeed as horrified as you may be at even the thought of this situation. I don't know where you come from, but in my part of the world very few people are confronted with this situation. There is no training video that I know of on how to take action in this case. My guess is that 99.9999 of the people in my part of the world would react with disgust and act in pretty much the same way. Due to physical limitiations, not all of us would be equally effective. Mel Gibson would probably be more effective than I would be in stopping this situation. Like most people in my part of the world we do not carry guns or weapons of any kind. Many of us are now carrying cell phones. We are all physical enough to scream and holler. I have not been physically tested in situations like this, but I hope I can mustard the courage to put my life on the line to stop this from happening. The answer in this situation is not to give everyone weapons to stop this type of activity or to even train citizens to physically deal with this type of situation. The expense would be too enormous. We should start by raising up our kids in a proper environment so they do not end up trying to do harm to people that are less powerful. Yes, this too is expensive. But we have no choice. Any other way is much too expensive. All I can do is do my part and help everyone around me to do their part. This is all I am going to say about this subject. If you disagree, let us just agree to disagree.