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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: cyclists attack auto driver
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:16:18 -0400
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On 8/21/2024 11:08 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 8/21/2024 10:05 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 8/21/2024 9:36 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's one way to look at it. Then again he has some certainty of 
>>> returning home after.
>>
>> That's the thing: I've also got certainty of returning home, no matter 
>> what I'm doing - so much that I absolutely never think about needing a 
>> weapon, or being afraid that I don't have one. And in 70+ years of 
>> life, I've proven that certainty correct every time.
>>
>> Those carrying guns do so out of fear.
>>
> 
> 
> Neither of you is wrong but you do not share neighborhoods or prior risk 
> event history and you each weigh the various criteria differently. It's 
> a personal situational decision for which universal maxims fall short.

ISTM that I'm betting I'll not need a gun. Over thousands and thousands 
of trips, I've always been proven right.

Our Florida tricycle rider is, in effect, betting that he's going to 
someday need a gun. Sounds like in at least hundreds of trips, he's been 
consistently proven wrong. But still, he's afraid.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski