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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:59:53 -0500
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On 12/27/2024 2:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> 
> Sure, there are incidents like the woman last summer who shot dead the 
> guy attacking her husband using her one day old pistol, but we'd have to 
> call that a fortuitous fluke. Start with that same woman asleep at 2am 
> and the outcome is less clear.  Your odds, with years of experience, 
> practice and 'muscle memory' are much better.

But damn, what a thing to devote your life to!

"I'm going to practice three times a week so in case someone breaks into 
my house in the middle of the night, I can slap my hand right on my gun, 
jump up into combat stance and blow the intruder away!"

Sheesh. 99.999% chance it's just a waste of time, plus a paranoid mindset.


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- Frank Krygowski