Re: bike path news

On 3/12/2025 8:46 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/11/2025 9:15 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/11/2025 9:08 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/11/2025 5:23 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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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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Which is a personal risk assessment. His, not yours.

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And as I must frequently remind people, personal assessments can be flat out wrong. With phobias, they almost always are.
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Consider the evidence on this one. It sounds like he's taken his gun on every bike ride for many years. That's probably hundreds of trips. Surely if he had actually had to brandish it, let alone shoot it, he'd have told us by now.
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So his hundreds personal risk assessments saying "I might need my gun for defense today" have all proven wrong. He's never once been right on this!
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That's a uniformly crappy track record.
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 We have a fire extinguisher in the shop truck and three of them in the bike shop (with 53 years of annual inspection fees I might add).  I have never used one. Ever.

Think benefits vs. detriments, please.
Fire extinguishers are benign. We don't have tens of thousands of fire extinguisher deaths per year. One thug beat capitol police with a fire extinguisher on January 6, 2021, but that idiot was an extreme outlier, whom Trump tried to turn into a hero.
(So much for complaints about criminals going free, eh?)
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- Frank Krygowski