Re: bike path news

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:31:50 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:50:41 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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On 3/11/2025 8:37 PM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:58:04 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 

On 3/11/2025 6:47 AM, John B. wrote:

On 11 Mar 2025 10:23:20 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
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AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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People form their own opinions and arrange their own
behavior based on their own situation.

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Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are
horribly afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees,
graveyards and more.
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Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying
lethal weaponry.
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My daughter for example used to take the train to work in
inclement or bitter cold Chicago winters.
No longer. ...

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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.
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The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
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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.
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I suspect he knows this as well, but simply likes having the gun on him?
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Roger Merriman

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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 :-)
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Even when they weren't shooting :-)

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lol...yeah, let's compare an active war zone to a florida bike path -
that's rational.....

 
The point was, as I did state, "you felt more secure "even when they
weren't shooting"

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Comparing a bike path in floriduh in 2025 to vietnam in 1970 isn't
rational, in fact, it's pretty fucking stupid....kunich-level stupid.
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Are you really that dense that you don't understand the phrase " a
firearm did give you a certain sense of security :-)"
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I might add that the first Usian I saw shot was shot by (likely) a S.
Vietnamese - "joy shots" during Tet
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But again, it is legal and even recommended by at least one high level
police officer. Who are you, or Frankie, for that matter, to deny some
one the right to do something that is lawful to do?

It's not as though they could deny it. All they can do is fume about
it. It's fun to watch.

--
C'est bon
Soloman