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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"
Date: 16 Feb 2025 04:32:12 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>I'm not familiar with the specific situation, but two things occur:
>1) If everybody is shooting, how are the Police supposed to take out
>only the bad guys? It's a lot easier when there is a clear difference
>between shooters and victims.

The idea here is that the police won't be needed presumably, as the bad
guys will be dead by the time they get there.

>2) If that much lead is flying around, I would expect the death toll
>to be /much/ higher.

Yes, but not as high as it will be once kids start bringing mortars to
school to protect them from the kids with the grenade launchers.
--scott
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