Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:22:06 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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:
https://www.yellowjersey.org/877/1911flag.jpg

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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.

Gun owners practice because it's enjoyabble. I do it at my friend's
house in the country.

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.

Some gun ranges require goggles, for some safety glasses will do. I
have two pais of safety glasses, on shaded, one clear.

It's too different from fumbling
for your pistol in a dresser drawer to shoot the boogey man.

My bedside gun is laying under the lid of an otherwise single gun
case. There will be no fumbling.

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.

Strawman....

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.

Yewwww....  Why is Krygowski now talking about my crotch.

--
C'est bon
Soloman