Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On 6/18/2025 9:11 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 6/18/2025 7:12 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 6/17/2025 6:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 6/17/2025 12:30 PM, cyclintom wrote:

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If someone enters your property with a gun, you are protecting your life even if they intend to only steal your car. I cannot tell the intentions of ANYONE assaulting me in any way.

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What if a person with a concealed carry license, or a person in an open carry jurisdiction, carries his gun and enters your property to ask directions? Would you really blow him away?
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<https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/us/michigan-man-shooting- at-teen- asking- directions>
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That kid didn't even carry a gun. But you seem to be saying that if he had, the homeowner should have killed him.
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And of course, the kid is black.
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At least he was found guilty, Such incidents many times have more dire consequences with fewer penalties.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180305202556/https:// www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/05/24/man- acquitted-of- killing-japanese-exchange- student/34a75a09-0a7b-468d-89c5-d6d8d7504f7c/
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And of course, the shooter was acquitted of murdering a teenager dressed  for a halloween party.
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"Hattori was dressed as John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever" and was brandishing nothing more menacing than a camera"
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but hey, louisiana....
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then there's this:
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https://apnews.com/article/hide-seek-shooting-louisiana- girl- neighbor-b59a1232f3fd309e1afd02174026fad7
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"A Louisiana man faces aggravated assault and battery charges after firing a gun at children who were playing hide and seek outside his home, wounding a 14-year-old girl, according to the local sheriff’s office.....The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head early Sunday"
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simple searches don't show what the result of the charges are. I guess he should be let go, after all, all he did was shoot a 14 year old in the head while she was running away....Small price to pay for paranoid white males to keep their deadly toys.
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(and yes, andrew, we know you're going to counter with the 'hundreds of case where guns were successfully used in self- defense'...again, the deaths of a few innocent kids are a small price to pay for paranoid white males to keep their deadly toys)
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 No one has been more clear than I on that subject.
 Deadly force is lawful to counter a credible threat to human life, such as a home intruder at 3am. It is not reasonable or lawful for imaginary situations or property, such as a guy stealing hubcaps in the street outside. Or a child in the yard.
 State Statutes are relatively uniform in that regard.

How about if a guy riding a tricycle on a suburban bike path sees someone who makes him nervous? Is he allowed to kill the guy, or is he limited to just "winging" him?
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- Frank Krygowski