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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:46:49 -0500
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On 3/11/2025 9:15 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 9:08 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 3/11/2025 5:23 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Which is a personal risk assessment. His, not yours.
> 
> And as I must frequently remind people, personal assessments 
> can be flat out wrong. With phobias, they almost always are.
> 
> Consider the evidence on this one. It sounds like he's taken 
> his gun on every bike ride for many years. That's probably 
> hundreds of trips. Surely if he had actually had to brandish 
> it, let alone shoot it, he'd have told us by now.
> 
> So his hundreds personal risk assessments saying "I might 
> need my gun for defense today" have all proven wrong. He's 
> never once been right on this!
> 
> That's a uniformly crappy track record.
> 

We have a fire extinguisher in the shop truck and three of 
them in the bike shop (with 53 years of annual inspection 
fees I might add).  I have never used one. Ever.

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