Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On 6/16/2025 9:09 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 6/16/2025 6:13 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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As you carry the gun on the trike? Do you practice if not why not?

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 Most firearm owners practice regularly:
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"Regularly"? I doubt that very strongly, unless "regularly" means "once a year or so" - IOW, not often enough to maintain real skills. There are thousands of gun owners for each shooting range, and they're not all that crowded.
And skills of any kind tend to be specific. Donning googles and ear protection and using a rest to carefully aim at a distant target would be very little help in a home invasion. It's too different from fumbling for your pistol in a dresser drawer to shoot the boogey man. Remember John's account of his actual home invasion? Despite his love of guns, his did him absolutely no good, largely because it wasn't strapped to his side.
For specific, thus effective, practice, our timid tricyclist should be practicing fast draw out of his crotch holster while he's riding, followed by fast shooting at imaginary pathside menaces. But he's not doing that. His gun is serving the same function as a teddy bear: it gives him comfort when he's scared.
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- Frank Krygowski