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2011-08-12 Britain

Amazon-UK: Baseball Bat Sales Up 5000%. Wonder Why?

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Posted by Thumper and Tenille2812 2011-08-12 10:54|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 16.
4 days in the top 100

Rucanor Aluminium Baseball Bat, Silver - 60 cm
by Rucanor
RRP: £21.00
Price: £17.15
You Save: £3.85 (18%)

Number sixteen on the list for best sellers in Sports & Leisure, and moving up -- has been in the top 100 for four days now. Aluminum bats don't splinter like wooden cricket bats...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-12 15:15|| 2011-08-12 15:15|| Front Page Top

#2 See...who needs guns :)

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-12 15:52|| 2011-08-12 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The weak, the old, women. I.e. the vulnerable. Why would you deny them the human right to defend themselves on an equal footing?

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-12 16:01|| 2011-08-12 16:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Shakey, a .38 special is a reasonable equalizer, in a way that a baseball bat cannot be, for a five foot, one inch, 100 pound woman suddenly up against a malignant six foot, three inch, 240 pound rapist.

Perhaps one of the women you know in your personal life can explain this further.

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-12 17:11|| 2011-08-12 17:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Theodore Dalrymple in 2003: practically no baseball is played in Britain, but plenty of bats are sold as weapons and lie detectors I really doubt these recent heavy sales are to average Britishers stocking up on defensive weapons, more likely prospective rioters are building up their arsenals while they can.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-12 17:37|| 2011-08-12 17:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Indeed. The average Brit should go with the fire pike and a buckler, cricket batting gear.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-12 17:55|| 2011-08-12 17:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Lie detectors?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-12 18:13|| 2011-08-12 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I think if I were tied to a chair and Jason Giambi was tooling a aluminum bat about, I would consider telling him exactly what he wanted to know.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-12 19:08|| 2011-08-12 19:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "Perhaps one of the women you know in your personal life can explain this further."

Hmmmm...so are you saying all women should be packing heat? Is that REALLY what you want? I know I don't and I know my wife wouldn't..

That being said, I don't live in US. Must really suck to live down there, having to worry about being raped or murdered 24 hours a day...some people would classify that as a tad on the paranoid side.

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-12 19:57|| 2011-08-12 19:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Shakey, you obviously suffer from lastworditis. You also obviously have no clue of what life is like down here in America or what it's like to live your life as a citizen and not serf/peon.

I've carried a weapon for more than 5 years. I've never felt any need to draw it or present it to a danger or threat. It's a tool, much the same as the first aid and emergency kit in my vehicles. It is simply there in case it is needed, should the day ever come. My sister lived in London for 2 years going to school and said she'd NEVER felt as safe there as she did here in the US. The vast majority of violent crime in the US is limited to gang members and their flunkies killing each other and only rarely does it involve others. Property crime is more likely here but crime of all stripes has been dropping here for a while as more and more states move to a must issue vs may issue permits.

Another way to look at it is this. My state government trusts me to carry a weapon, because it's helpful for my neighbors and because I am no danger to other law abiding citizens. Armed citizens in this country are more law abiding than the police are. Sad but significant FACT.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-08-12 20:58|| 2011-08-12 20:58|| Front Page Top

#11 "The vast majority of violent crime in the US is limited to gang members and their flunkies killing each other and only rarely does it involve others. "

Then why do you need to carry a gun? You kind of just proved my point...

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-12 21:04|| 2011-08-12 21:04|| Front Page Top

#12 if you were the exception to the vast majority, I'd say: "see? Proved MY point."

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-12 21:25|| 2011-08-12 21:25|| Front Page Top

#13 It's a tool, much the same as the first aid and emergency kit in my vehicles. It is simply there in case it is needed, should the day ever come.

Perhaps if you'd read the post fully, you would have found the answer. I try to be a responsible citizen, by being prepared for everything that I can within reason. I travel a great deal, I work for a company that many liberals have mouth-frothing hatred for, and I would rather be armed than unarmed, despite spending time taking Akido and studying martial arts, I know that the way of the gun beats the way of the open hand.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-08-12 21:42|| 2011-08-12 21:42|| Front Page Top

#14 it's a tool... Shakey that is. end of discussion.

Posted by abu do you love 2011-08-12 21:48|| 2011-08-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Shakey: I do not advocate that most women should pack heat. The point (my dear sir, do you ever see one?) was that a pistol is an equalizer for the weak versus the strong, and a better equalizer than a Louisville slugger.

The weak cannot always depend on the government to defend them.

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-12 22:53|| 2011-08-12 22:53|| Front Page Top

#16 That being said, I don't live in US.

That's patently obvious.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-12 23:13|| 2011-08-12 23:13|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh now, that is a classic ploy.

People should not be required to carry a firearm. What should be considered is the choice. I trust you to make the right decision based upon what you feel is the right decision, all I ask is that in return. If I feel the need to carry a gerber and a window punch just in case I come across a neighbor off the road in trouble, I should not be prosecuted (because I will do it anyways and I am not a criminal I am the good samaritan and I am a rescuer; I know minutes count) because some dude in the big city ran that as a sales pitch and has to follow through for their own career of making millions, dude, that is bullshit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-12 23:40|| 2011-08-12 23:40|| Front Page Top

#18 Not to be particular, but I am a follower of the 10 yard, uhem meter if that helps (but the particular matters only to response time), theory, on self awareness. That is not paranoia, that is not being in la la land as so many of my friends are. Its being able to spot trouble, even if its a sponge ball at the swimming pool being thrown around while my child learns to swim and like the water. It has paid off already, not with child water polo or even pet in the kids food, but stuff like yellow jackets at the least.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-12 23:55|| 2011-08-12 23:55|| Front Page Top

#19 Now expand that radius.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-12 23:57|| 2011-08-12 23:57|| Front Page Top

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