Re: bike path news

On 3/12/2025 12:40 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/12/2025 9:05 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/11/2025 9:29 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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"...helmets have not killed any innocent bystanders."
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Nor has Mr Tricycle. Score 0-0.

 You switched the comparison from devices to people. IOW, you're comparing apples to hand grenades.
 Compare devices to devices: Bike helmets, silly as they usually are, have not been used to murder other people. Guns are regularly used to murder others.
 Or compare people to people. Those wearing bike helmets don't intend to use them to harm other people. Those carrying guns do intend to seriously harm others, if in their instantaneous and often distorted judgment, those people deserve to be seriously harmed. Why else would they carry a lethal device?
 

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:...law calling for serious training and re-certification of gun owners"
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Actually, much time and expense for a couple hundred years have been spent by service organizations (NRA, GOA), schools, Scouts, quasi- governmental programs (CMP) etc on firearms operation, safety protocols and marksmanship. To good effect I might add.

 Indeed, and I strongly approve of firearm training for those intent on using or having guns. (Both of our kids got such training, BTW.) But again, you're moving the goalposts. The question was whether that training should be required by law. And you _know_ that NRA and GOA would have armies of lawyers fighting against any such law. Hell, it would hurt gun sales!
 

We either have a government of Constitutionally limited powers or we do not.  This is a perpetual conflict BTW.
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