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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: 11 Mar 2025 10:58:45 GMT
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John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2025 10:23:20 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
> 
>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>> On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> People form their own opinions and arrange their own 
>>>>> behavior based on their own situation.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are 
>>>> horribly afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees, 
>>>> graveyards and more.
>>>> 
>>>> Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying 
>>>> lethal weaponry.
>>>> 
>>>>> My daughter for example used to take the train to work in 
>>>>> inclement or bitter cold Chicago winters.
>>>>> No longer. ...
>>>> 
>>>> You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet 
>>>> found a horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in 
>>>> suburban Florida, near our timid tricycle rider.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
>>> 
>> 
>> Just because it can happen doesn’t mean it will happen, going out on limb
>> but I suspect that CatTrike Ryder will be perfectly safe with or without
>> carrying any guns on his rides.
>> 
>> I suspect he knows this as well, but simply likes having the gun on him?
>> 
>> Roger Merriman
> 
> I spent more then a year in Vietnam where people did, on occasion,
> shoot at you and I can assure you that a firearm did give you a
> certain sense of security :-)
> 
> Even when they weren't shooting :-)

I’m assuming this was the Vietnam war or similar which is a kinda difficult
risk case to put it mildly!

And yes there are places where having a gun on you seems a wise decision,
riding your bike even in America doesn’t seems likely hence the absence of
bike specific kit to do so.

Roger Merriman