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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 21:18:05 -0500
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On 2/3/2025 9:04 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 2/3/2025 7:55 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 2/3/2025 12:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Noone "wins" an argument about opinions. Is that what you think 
>>> you're doing by arguing that Catrike shouldn't be carrying a gun 
>>> despite a Constitutional Amendment giving him the right to do so? 
>>> Your opinion appears to be counter to the Constitution and you 
>>> believe that you're winning something? Murder rates tend to be lowest 
>>> in areas with the most highly rural populations so zsparate people 
>>> and you don't have violent confrontations. Gun laws make little to no 
>>> diffrence.
>>
>> I'm just pointing out that almost all people who carry guns do so 
>> because they are afraid. In nearly all cases, they are afraid of 
>> things that never happen. That's phobia.
>>
>> And I'm aware I'm violating my resolution to stop responding to, um, a 
>> certain type of person. I'll try to do better.
>>
> 
> I post enough current successful defensive use videos to show that risks 
> are real (although situationally more or less) and that preparation and 
> training may well be dispositive /in extremis/.
> 
> Fear? OK, perhaps. Rational risk assessment is another equally valid term.

Or is it irrational risk assessment? Hey, let's see what the NRA says!

https://www.mediamatters.org/national-rifle-association/nra-commentary-admits-odds-needing-gun-defend-yourself-are-infinitesimal


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- Frank Krygowski