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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:56:57 -0400
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:22:06 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 6/16/2025 9:09 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 6/16/2025 6:13 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>
>>> As you carry the gun on the trike? Do you practice if not why not?
>>>>
>> 
>> Most firearm owners practice regularly:
>> https://www.yellowjersey.org/877/1911flag.jpg
>
>"Regularly"? I doubt that very strongly, unless "regularly" means "once 
>a year or so" - IOW, not often enough to maintain real skills. There are 
>thousands of gun owners for each shooting range, and they're not all 
>that crowded.

Gun owners practice because it's enjoyabble. I do it at my friend's
house in the country. 

>And skills of any kind tend to be specific. Donning googles and ear 
>protection and using a rest to carefully aim at a distant target would 
>be very little help in a home invasion. 

Some gun ranges require goggles, for some safety glasses will do. I
have two pais of safety glasses, on shaded, one clear.

>It's too different from fumbling 
>for your pistol in a dresser drawer to shoot the boogey man. 

My bedside gun is laying under the lid of an otherwise single gun
case. There will be no fumbling.

Remember 
>John's account of his actual home invasion? Despite his love of guns, 
>his did him absolutely no good, largely because it wasn't strapped to 
>his side.

Strawman....

>For specific, thus effective, practice, our timid tricyclist should be 
>practicing fast draw out of his crotch holster while he's riding, 
>followed by fast shooting at imaginary pathside menaces. But he's not 
>doing that. His gun is serving the same function as a teddy bear: it 
>gives him comfort when he's scared.

Yewwww....  Why is Krygowski now talking about my crotch.

--
C'est bon
Soloman