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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:41:12 -0500
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On 12/28/2024 9:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 12/27/2024 8:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 12/27/2024 2:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, there are incidents like the woman last summer who shot dead 
>>> the guy attacking her husband using her one day old pistol, but we'd 
>>> have to call that a fortuitous fluke. Start with that same woman 
>>> asleep at 2am and the outcome is less clear.  Your odds, with years 
>>> of experience, practice and 'muscle memory' are much better.
>>
>> But damn, what a thing to devote your life to!
>>
>> "I'm going to practice three times a week so in case someone breaks 
>> into my house in the middle of the night, I can slap my hand right on 
>> my gun, jump up into combat stance and blow the intruder away!"
>>
>> Sheesh. 99.999% chance it's just a waste of time, plus a paranoid 
>> mindset.
>>
>>
> 
> Not really, for me anyway.
> 
> The past several years, I shoot targets weekly with a pistol I made and 
> find it a challenging and relaxing pause in my week. 

Target practice can be fun, I agree. But I think it has little relevance 
to a 2 AM home invasion.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski