Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:51
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If more thieves were killed it would be better for society and also act as a deterant
I’ve lived in countries where that’s common and it still isn’t a deterrent. Desperate people will continue to steal because they lack other viable alternatives. And criminal organizations will never run out of desperate people they can trap into stealing for them.
In one case, my landlord caught a young man stealing from a storage area of our building. The young man had a disabled mother and two younger siblings. He did day labor every day, but it wasn’t covering their basic living expenses. The only other option was selling his body (prostitution) or selling drugs. Both of those had a higher risk of death than getting caught stealing so he took the chance. We gave some money and food to his family but I went back to the States so I don’t know his ultimate fate.
The one certain, effective, and humane manner to address inequality driving so-called “crime” is a lack of full wrap-around services to those in need.
No one actually wants to commit a crime; they are driven to it by desperation and lack of resources.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:36
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t live in the hood.
I lived in the hood for a long time. No one broke in to any homes in our neighborhood because none of us had anything to steal. It's only in nice neighborhoods people get broken into.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:34
Subject: Re:Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And don’t forget the pointed sticks!Baseball bats? Golf clubs? Ninja throwing stars? Batons? Bug spray? Y’all are out of your damn minds.
And a banana
LOL, quality reference right there.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:21
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:If more thieves were killed it would be better for society and also act as a deterant
I’ve lived in countries where that’s common and it still isn’t a deterrent. Desperate people will continue to steal because they lack other viable alternatives. And criminal organizations will never run out of desperate people they can trap into stealing for them.
In one case, my landlord caught a young man stealing from a storage area of our building. The young man had a disabled mother and two younger siblings. He did day labor every day, but it wasn’t covering their basic living expenses. The only other option was selling his body (prostitution) or selling drugs. Both of those had a higher risk of death than getting caught stealing so he took the chance. We gave some money and food to his family but I went back to the States so I don’t know his ultimate fate.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:19
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Question though - if you awaken to a rapist or just a perv (like the Boston foot tickler) at the bottom of your bed, would a weapon - not even a gun, but a golf club or baton at-least allow the woman the chance to fight back?
You should not fight back; it’s not worth your life.
If you don’t fight back then it’s your life you lose in certain instances also. Never let a perp take you to a second location, if they want to kill you they will either way. You atleast have. A moments chance before it happens.
But, what if they just want your money, like from a ATM? (and they want to let you go, unharmed, afterwards? ).
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:05
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
If more thieves were killed it would be better for society and also act as a deterant
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:02
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Question though - if you awaken to a rapist or just a perv (like the Boston foot tickler) at the bottom of your bed, would a weapon - not even a gun, but a golf club or baton at-least allow the woman the chance to fight back?
You should not fight back; it’s not worth your life.
If you don’t fight back then it’s your life you lose in certain instances also. Never let a perp take you to a second location, if they want to kill you they will either way. You atleast have. A moments chance before it happens.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:02
Subject: Re:Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
This is interesting, because, didn’t her running mate Tim Walz also reveal that he also keeps a gun and ammunition at his personal home ?
I mean he is from Minnesota. Does that really surprise you?
Anonymous
07/23/2025 12:01
Subject: Re:Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
No, we don't, but should we want to, we have a nice selection of bats due to a travel baseball child. Trying to decide if I'd go for the USSSA bats for the lighter swing weight or the BBCOR or wood for more of a punch.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 11:56
Subject: Re:Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:
This is interesting, because, didn’t her running mate Tim Walz also reveal that he also keeps a gun and ammunition at his personal home ?
Anonymous
07/23/2025 11:20
Subject: Re:Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Knife & mace.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 11:19
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
No, a Remington 870 with a pistol grip is within reach.
Anonymous
07/23/2025 11:04
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
When I lived alone I slept with a knife under my pillow, and did also for the first few years of my marriage when dh was traveling for work.
My mindset may have been a bit skewed as 2 times in my youth, I was woken up by a man on top of me attempting SA- once in HS I was sleeping over at a friends and woke to her older brother unbuttoning my pajamas. Once in my 20s I awoke to my male roommate kissing me.
I decided the next attempt was going to get stabbed in the leg (or worse).
My mindset may have been a bit skewed as 2 times in my youth, I was woken up by a man on top of me attempting SA- once in HS I was sleeping over at a friends and woke to her older brother unbuttoning my pajamas. Once in my 20s I awoke to my male roommate kissing me.
I decided the next attempt was going to get stabbed in the leg (or worse).
Anonymous
07/23/2025 10:53
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Correction: “I feel” not “has feel.”
This sites autocorrect is so odd!
This sites autocorrect is so odd!
Anonymous
07/23/2025 10:53
Subject: Do you keep a baseball bat by your bed?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No but i have a gun next to me. I am not afraid to use it either.
Who do you imagine you’ll be shooting? Other than the people that whoever steals the gun from you shoots?
Whoever who is stupid enough to come inside uninvited at night.
People make this argument all the time with absolutely no evidence of it. Those of us who keep firearms by our beds (I'm a 50s something woman who does) have been trained and know when and how to use them. Please, show me a time when someone has had their own gun turned on them in their home. I have never seen one.
Here you go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/handguns-homicide-risk.html
https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/debunking-the-guns-make-us-safer-myth/