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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:21:58 -0600
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On 2/2/2025 10:32 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:43:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/1/2025 8:58 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>
>>> People do make individual decisions based on their individual
>>> evaluations of their individual circumstances, abilities etc. by their
>>> own individual criteria.  And then they live or die by those decisions.
>>>
>>> https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/garbage-collector-shoots-2-armed-robbers-
>>> outside-elementary-school-killing-1.html
>>>
>>> In my personal opinion it is not morally superior do die while being
>>> robbed. YMMV.
>>
>> A parallel statement that might be made by other people about spiders,
>> snakes, ghosts, enclosed spaces, and dozens of other phobias. Requiring
>> a gun to ride on a quiet bike path where young mothers push kids in
>> strollers is paranoid. And if I lived somewhere where I needed a gun to
>> fend off armed robbers, I'd move.
> 
> 
> Well... Ohio is only 14 from the top of the list in Robbery Rate
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/232564/robbery-rate-in-the-us-by-state/
> 
> But more perhaps more interesting is how do you know that you " needed
> a gun to fend off armed robbers"?
> 
> Until you actually do need it?

On one hand, Poland OH is largely bereft of violent crime:

https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Poland-Ohio.html
(compare to nearby Youngstown in 1st chart)


On the other, you don't know what you don't know, and 
careful methodical analysis is not part of a successful 
defense when events occur within moments. One is either 
prepared or in Second Place.

Action video this morning:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/world-news/moment-78-year-old-fatally-shoots-teenager-trying-to-rob-him-in-argentina/

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