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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: 11 Mar 2025 15:46:28 GMT
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Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 10:33 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 3/11/2025 8:58 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>> On 3/11/2025 6:47 AM, John B. 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 :-)
>>> 
>>> lol...yeah, let's compare an active war zone to a florida bike path - 
>>> that's rational.....
>>> 
>> 
>> Well, there's Florida and then again there's Florida.  Goes both ways in 
>> different areas and unlike Mr Tricycle I am not an expert on where/when.
>> 
>> A better comparison may be Vietnam in the 1960s to Chiraq yesterday 
>> evening:
>> 
>> https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tourist-walking-11-year-old- 
>> son-shot-outside-streeterville
>> 
> 
> None of which applies to a bike path in florida
> 

+1

Be more truthful if folks just said they like guns, than the reaching for
justification which isn’t going to convince anyone!

Roger Merriman