On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:08:06 GMT, BottleBob
wrote:


Are you aware of the fact that most assaults and rapes are committed
by someone known to the victim?

I saw where you said that before. I have no information on which to
judge whether it's actually a "fact" or not. Do you have a credible
site that DOES have this information?

BTW, thinking about it right now, as soon as an "acquaintance" or
"family member" engages in the act of robbery, rape, or assault of
another... then they BECOME "an unethical criminal, intent on taking
stuff and doing bodily harm", do they not? One minute a friend, next
minute a felon.

--
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob

One should further note..that in those cases where the victim was
known to the assailant, simply knowing them, means what? When one
gangbanger from one gang, kills another from a different gang, its
likely they knew each other socially. Carl is well known for being a
slippery weasel, so Id like to see where he is trying to go with this.
If some gal walks out of a bar, and is assaulted and raped by another
patron she may have talked to before..this means what? That they are
good friends or family members?

Hardly, but it does match the "someone known to the victim" and is it
any less a rape or assault than if they were complete strangers?

Gunner

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith