David Beierl wrote:
>
> At 19:22 3/31/99 -0500, Kari Williams wrote:
> >ok, ok... you all convinced me. the handgun stays home. so what do you all
> >think of a stun gun? and do you have any idea how many times per day my
> >coworkers tell me about the "yosemite 3"? i just refuse to spend my summer
> >watching TV inside my locked house. boring!
> >~kari
>
> My personal opinion (now that we're flogging a dead horse) with the handgun
> is that if you have to ask the question, the answer is no.
>
> Re the stungun, that would be a lot easier for a cop to let slide, IMHO,
> but they *are* illegal in a lot of places.  I call it a tossup.  Personally
> I think I'd leave it home.
>
Stun guns are illegal in New York. They only recently made pepper spray
legal, but since it has been used in many crimes there are moves afoot
to ban it. Here, you can be arrested for carrying a screwdriver - it can
be considered a deadly weapon.