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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:19:07 -0500
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On 9/13/2024 3:10 AM, John B. wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:37:04 -0400, Catrike Ryder
> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:57:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/12/2024 8:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 9/12/2024 6:45 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> On 9/12/2024 5:40 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:13:42 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Understood. Your near-default point is "Everyone's decision is
>>>>>>> correct."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My frequent point is "You don't need to go to extremes to be safe,
>>>>>>> especially on a bike."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My frequent point is that safe is a subjective evaluation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I feel safe on a bicycle sidepath, you don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> You feel safe on a bicycle sidepath only if you've got a handgun ready
>>>>> to draw and fire within a second or two.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Correct. Suits his situation, in his personal evaluation.
>>>>
>>>> As always, when seconds matter, 911 is just twenty minutes away.
>>>
>>> "His situation" is shared by many other path users. I'm betting he's the
>>> only one so afraid as to never ride without his gun.
>>
>> Whose to say? Could very well be true on those sidepaths, where's
>> there's ususally a lot of other people around.
> 
> Since I believe that Frankie brought up 9-11. Had any passenger been
> armed at least one of the flights - Flight 93 - would likely not have
> crashed.
> 
> And possibly even one or more of the other 3, although the time would
> have been very close.
> 
> AND I believe that armed Sky Marshals are still flying. A whole bunch
> of cowards according to Frankie's theories.

The first death was a passenger, unarmed former IDF Israeli 
American.

https://forward.com/israel/349423/the-life-and-loss-of-daniel-lewin-web-genius-and-9-11s-first-victim/

More than competent and yet unarmed and dead, according to 
The Rules which make no sense in the real world.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971