>  BM>  >  BM> Calling the police doesn't require arms.
 >  BM>  >    This is true - but being unarmed can be
 >  BM>  > intimidating when everyone else
 >  BM>  > about you is armed and appears to be bent on doing
 >  BM>  > damage to your person.
 >  BM> I can appreciate this.
 > I keep seeing an advertisement by ADT showing a gun
 > and a telephone, noting
 > that the gun can't call the police.  What they fail to
 > note is that the phone
 > won't keep the guy who cut your phone lines from doing
 > you harm - a gun has a
 > better chance of doing that.  I can see me now
 > pointing a phone at someone....
Nobody has yet invented a novelty phone that looks like a gun?  Surprising.  
Of course, the possession of such an item might misfire.
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