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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:28:47 -0500
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On 3/11/2025 8:47 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 3/10/2025 8:11 PM, AMuzi 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.
>>
> 
> And there's no evidence regarding motive, whether or not 
> there was a struggle, if the victim was taken by 
> surprise...How much good do you think carrying a gun is 
> going to do if you're strolling along the bike path and 
> someone comes up from behind and pops one into your skull?
> 
> How relevant would you consider the crime to safety of a 
> bike path is if the victim was specifically targeted rather 
> than a crime of opportunity?
> 
> This single data point hardly rationalizes carrying a gun 
> out of fear _literally_ 3000 miles away.
> 

I don't know anything more than the report we both read.

But overall, I did routinely carry where/when I felt it was 
prudent. Never on a bicycle, and I generally don't carry now 
but I understand that situations vary. Greatly. As do 
personal assessments of risk.

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