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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:58:04 -0400
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On 3/11/2025 6:47 AM, John B. wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2025 10:23:20 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
> 
>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>> On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> People form their own opinions and arrange their own
>>>>> behavior based on their own situation.
>>>>
>>>> Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are
>>>> horribly afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees,
>>>> graveyards and more.
>>>>
>>>> Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying
>>>> lethal weaponry.
>>>>
>>>>> My daughter for example used to take the train to work in
>>>>> inclement or bitter cold Chicago winters.
>>>>> No longer. ...
>>>>
>>>> You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet
>>>> found a horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in
>>>> suburban Florida, near our timid tricycle rider.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
>>>
>>
>> Just because it can happen doesn’t mean it will happen, going out on limb
>> but I suspect that CatTrike Ryder will be perfectly safe with or without
>> carrying any guns on his rides.
>>
>> I suspect he knows this as well, but simply likes having the gun on him?
>>
>> Roger Merriman
> 
> I spent more then a year in Vietnam where people did, on occasion,
> shoot at you and I can assure you that a firearm did give you a
> certain sense of security :-)
> 
> Even when they weren't shooting :-)

lol...yeah, let's compare an active war zone to a florida bike path - 
that's rational.....

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