Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Cycling in Poland Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:43:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:43:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="09e2c28d0d812916eb8e12773a15d6fe"; logging-data="3048897"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bEsC5M8JQHggmesTw6ZW4lbMvIrDA1Hk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KiAwIAOQM6qIT3SuEwFYJ/E4kqE= Bytes: 4252 On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 14:17:50 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >On 7/4/2024 2:07 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:33:04 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >> >>> On 7/4/2024 11:23 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:02:24 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://nypost.com/2024/07/04/opinion/on-bike-ride-from-auschwitz-polands-warm-welcome-for-jews/ >>>> >>>> From that cite: >>>> >>>> >>>> "Poland today is “the safest place for Jews in Europe,” as Queens-born >>>> Jonathan Ornstein, the powerful speaker who built and leads the JCC >>>> Krakow, put it. >>>> >>>> The contrast with the New York I’d left behind was unavoidable. >>>> >>>> The same evening we gathered for dinner, anti-Israel protesters >>>> stormed a Democratic Party fundraiser near Madison Square Garden — >>>> just another assault in the ongoing series of such actions in a city >>>> where antisemitism has become all too apparent. >>>> >>>> ******************* >>>> >>>> Jewish people should carry guns in some places. >>> >>> Absolutely. >>> >>> I was a big fan of Meir Kahane ('Never Again', 'Every Jew a >>> .22') over 50 years ago. He was ahead of his time and much >>> missed. >>> >>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/us/adl-antisemtism-2023-audit-reaj/index.html >> >> I know.. I wouldn't go for a 3 AM walk in most parts of Chicago, even >> with a gun. I think I feel that way about most, maybe all big cities. >> Tampa, Orlando and Miami included, St Pete, most definately included. >> That's not to say the suburbs are safe. I lived for a while on my >> boat in Bradenton. I had my car broken into there. I chased an >> intruder off my boat in St. Pete Beach. I had better luck in a marina >> in Ruskin, but the boat in the slip next to me in Tarpon Springs got >> broken into. > >At one time I was in North Lawndale Chicago from time to >time. Wouldn't think of going there unarmed, then or now. >Fortunately I no longer have any reason to be there. > >In my daughter's neighborhood, Rogers Park, there are >drive-bys now and a spate of recent murders at her nearby >subway station > >https://cwbchicago.com/2024/06/another-man-murdered-near-howard-cta-station-2nd-in-8-days.html > >but in risk assessment that risk is lower than a vengeful >prosecution for carrying w/o IL permit. > >Incarceration for violent criminals has become politically >undesirable among The Powers That Be: > >https://cwbchicago.com/2024/07/uptown-man-opened-fire-on-a-busy-street-corner-while-on-an-ankle-monitor-for-another-gun-case-prosecutors-say.html > >https://cwbchicago.com/2024/07/migrant-bit-chicago-cop-twice-during-arrest-while-on-pretrial-release-for-biting-another-cop-prosecutors.html > >or the same in any metro area overnight news. There's been several comments on RBT about considering benefits vs detriments. I understand that the chances of me actually needing a gun on my walks or on my rides are very small, so the benefits of me carrying a gun are also very small, but on the other hand, there are no detriments... none at all.