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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:33:21 -0500
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On 3/11/2025 8:58 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> 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.....
> 

Well, there's Florida and then again there's Florida.  Goes 
both ways in different areas and unlike Mr Tricycle I am not 
an expert on where/when.

A better comparison may be Vietnam in the 1960s to Chiraq 
yesterday evening:

https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tourist-walking-11-year-old-son-shot-outside-streeterville

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