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echo: surv_rush
to: WAYNE THOMPSON
from: TOM GOODMAN
date: 1997-12-17 03:01:00
subject: Re: Armed And Dangerous

WT> People are ingenious.  If they are denied "ordinary" weapons,
WT> they will make use of what is available to them, and figure out
WT> the most deadly ways of using even the most trivial items...
WT> I recently made a comment on another echo concerning the use of "field
WT> expedient weaponry", and said that what the average pissed-off American
WT> could come up with in the way of "kitchen table" weapons if he was 
suddenly
WT> thrust into a civil war situation boggles the mind.
        Boy that's for sure.  Did you know that if you followed King David's
lead, got about 4 feet of leather shoe string with a pocket in the middle, 
nd
used a few good sized ball bearings, you can hurl that thing at a velocity
approaching Civil War Rifle Balls?  It's true.  I tried it.  Far too 
angerous
to encourage.
        Maybe we could have a substitute weapon of the week thread.
TG
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