[Epona]

Also just to clarify my personal stance on one issue that arises from this thread:

Self defense is no offense IMO. If someone was gonna kill me, I would do my utmost to make sure they died first. If they turned tail and ran, I wouldn't go after them though. But in a choice between me and them, I choose me. If I was looking down the barrel of someone's gun and I had a gun, I would try to shoot first. No hesitation.

I once had the unfortunate task of having to fight off an unarmed attacker who broke into my hotel room while I was asleep in bed. My instinct was to grab the nearest heavy object (a ceramic lamp-base) - and I was aiming to do as much damage as I could with it, not just wave it around and hope he chickened out. Fortunately he ran off without harming me, but I was clear in my mind that if it came down to it I would fight to the death, preferably his. If I had a gun, I might have shot him, but only if he hadn't run.

[ 05-02-2002, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Epona ]