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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Todays rant
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:30:41 -0500
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 14:39:10 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 12/6/2024 4:18 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 20:29:23 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/5/2024 6:07 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I remember someone who insists that the fact that people who have guns
>>>> sometimes get shot mean that having a gun makes you more likely to get
>>>> shot.
>>> You're not remembering. You're imagining straw man positions. Just like
>>> Tom, you imagine arguments in which you're "winning."
>>>
>>> I've given multiple citations of reputable sources, and many links to
>>> reputable studies. You've given only snarks, which is one of the reasons
>>> I so seldom respond to you.
>>>
>>> You've got the intellectual depth of a whiny third grader.
>
>My, I seem to have upset Mr. Tricycle! How could that have happened?  ;-)
>
>> I remember it well. You went on and on insisting that the correlation
>> between gun shot victims and gun owning victims meant owning a gun was
>> dangerous. 
>
>Post links to exactly what I said, and we can discuss. People here don't 
>trust your "memory" any more than we trust the "memory" of Tom Kunich.

See below:

>> As for your citations of reputable sources, the thing is;  you saying
>> they're reputable doesn't make them reputable. 
>
>Yeah, I know. Any source that disagrees with your simplistic mind is not 
>reputable. Perhaps I should be quoting the Epoch Times instead?  Or 
>maybe Tucker Carlson?  ;-)
>
>Have you yet grown the courage to ride your tricycle on a bike path 
>without having a handgun for feelings of security?
>
>I thought not.

And the data's clear that a gun in the house "for
protection" greatly increases the chance someone in that
house will be badly hurt or killed by it. Houses without
guns are almost always safer. 
--Krygowski

Do you really want to discuss that nonsense? I'm ready if you are.

--
C'est bon
Soloman