Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: bike path news Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:34:56 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <8plrsjh8vcsu9srdm0crpkuaingdlipc22@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:35:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e1a09cdc8fe108456f00b937f400bb52"; logging-data="2109336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/U8WbFLF6kIol+aQU9gf3eA0IUtzp4Ums=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DyH4L0ocmN6FSwrDzIzNFn5JOuM= Bytes: 3567 On 11 Mar 2025 10:58:45 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >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 :-) > >I’m assuming this was the Vietnam war or similar which is a kinda difficult risk case to put it mildly! How so? You are on an Air Base and nobody is shooting at you? > >And yes there are places where having a gun on you seems a wise decision, >riding your bike even in America doesn’t seems likely hence the absence of >bike specific kit to do so. > >Roger Merriman But (:-) In many states it is perfectly legal to carry a gun and if one wants to do so why should he be admonished for doing so? -- Cheers, John B.