Re: bike path news

On 12 Mar 2025 06:31:29 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11 Mar 2025 15:46:28 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
 

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Tue Mar 11 10:58:45 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> 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 doesnt 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!
 
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.

 
 
 
 
Do you suppose that Vietnam or Laos is safe today?
 

 
I?d assume so yes, I?d confidently predict it has lower violent crime rate
than US, certainly folks who have gone there or lived there haven?t claimed
they needed a gun or someone with gun for protection!
 
Roger Merriman

 
 
I can't speak for Vietnam or Laos, which are both Communist,  but in
Thailand, my nephew - manages a family business in the village -
estimates that every business will have at least one gun (legal or
not) on the premises and all gold shops, for sure, will have one at
the sales counter, and they will shoot.

>
That is moving goal posts, ie folks are using guns as deterrent against
robbery at high value stores.
>

High value stores??? My Nephew sells, among other thing, noodles -
(:-) they are a wholesale food stuff store  - where restraints and
other food sellers get their stuff.

And yes guns can be a deterrent, here as the armed police are so lethal,
and using a gun will make you a target both literally and for
investigation, so only very dumb folks use guns as the risks are so high,
and tend to pay the price for doing so.
>
That’s rather different to having a gun, for bike ride or popping to the
shops and so on.
>
Roger Merriman

The point I was trying to make is that carrying a gun in Florida is
lawful and I might add recommended by high level Police Officers
there. Why should someone be condemned for doing something that is
perfectly legal?

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Cheers,

John B.