Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Merriman Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: bike path news Date: 11 Mar 2025 15:46:28 GMT Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: <8plrsjh8vcsu9srdm0crpkuaingdlipc22@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net N7kQCsXlQjsusP/vt9f7uwIQf9IHS535f+tLH/20Fp+6YjVBn0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TZVrVHtDWEgBF5w1fPt9MEFHGH4= sha1:CuxmUKN9gsAXmYLYTynG6nCvdRQ= sha256:O5H2oOEHeIc/vIFopnEo7JIW2nzDFzuIE7wfSlrdEF8= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Bytes: 3782 Zen Cycle wrote: > On 3/11/2025 10:33 AM, AMuzi wrote: >> 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 wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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 >> > > None of which applies to a bike path in florida > +1 Be more truthful if folks just said they like guns, than the reaching for justification which isn’t going to convince anyone! Roger Merriman