Do you keep a knife in your end table?

Have this in my nightstand. as well as a small 500lm flashlight and a softball bat leaning beside it, Of course I likely wouldnt need it as I have a Jamaican wife beside me and an Argentine Dogo at my feet
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Skar said:
I'm ashamed to say this..
I sleep with a knife iwb 4 o'clock.

No I don't need it, but it's there just always has been.
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I don’t find this weird. I have a knife (smaller than EDC) in my sweats. I don‘t sleep with it, but I wear a watch in bed, which my wife used to question.
 
shane45-1911 said:
Huh??? Home invasions continue to increase every year.
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That was un response to someone else who put home defence in quotations and phrased a knife that would never be used
Home invasions happen here all the time
Well not all the time but you hear of it more often.
 
I too sleep with a knife in the pocket of my pajamas... The rest of my stuff (think lighter, flashlight, phone, and whatnot) are on my nightstand. Not for self defense mind you, (there's a 12 gauge loaded with 00 buck for that) it's more so that I occasionally wander about the house in the wee hours and like to have a knife. I also keep my bond arms Derringer loaded with shot readily available to deal with the occasional predatory incursion involving my chickens.
 
NYP said:
Just a passing thought, wondering how common it is for people in this forum to keep a knife in their end table drawer in their bedroom? Thinking for self protection purposes, but also thinking it could be a good excuse to buy another knife ;).
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Not my end table, but the top drawer of dresser near the bedroom entrance has... more than one, knife in it.
 
Doesn’t everyone??

My three usual EDC knives live there, right next to my pistol, my flashlight, my other flashlight, my phone and my watch.

Then there’s a dagger in a sheath attached out-of-sight to the headboard and another flashlight and a back-scratcher next to the mattress.
 
I have a SRK sitting on the night stand, but not under the illusion that it could be wielded effectively when being awakened in the middle of the night.

As time marches on I have thought about the self defense aspects of a situation like that. Used to have a jutte that was picked up a long long time ago sitting there. The handle side of the metal jutte is rather short which puts the weight awkwardly up front. Can't swing it back and forth easily without strain on the wrist, so it was put aside. Bought the SRK to keep there next. But what happens if something goes boom in the night? Do I have the time to rise out of bed, put on glasses, grab the sheath, open the snap, and draw the blade? If the other person has a bat or club, crowbar, etc., the knife won't do much good. Ended up buying a Cold Steel Medieval Buckler. If something goes boom, I can grab it with both hands to block, push, or slam while screaming my head off for the neighbors to hear. Sure it won't stop bullets, but that is not its purpose. Rather, something quick and dirty to buy time.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
No...I have about 8 in there 😉
My nightstand is where I keep my "probable rotation" knives and multitools. These are the most likely candidates to be carried based on my day to day.

I do keep a khukuri right under the bed out of old habit, but generally, if I am reaching in the nightstand for protection, I'm drawing out the Glock. Still, not a bad idea to have something handy.

I think it would be prudent for you to buy another knife 😉
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Exactly. I keep my knife storage/display case on my end table. My big gun cabinet is about 4 feet from the head of my bed, so I can grab a gun quickly. I'm not of the persuasion that a knife is useful in a fight except last ditch effort. Especially if I can grab the AR quickly. I keep the cabinet open when I'm in the room/sleeping. Don't wanna have to fumble with a lock.
 
I have a knife on the night stand, on the dresser, on the bathroom counter, in the hall, in the den, in the kitchen, in ....

Oh, wait, I'm wrong. There's 2 on the night stand, a couple of dozen in/on the dresser, a dozen or so in the garage, 50 or 60 in the office, another dozen in the den, a couple thousand out in the shop. Got dozens of bayonets here there and yonder, a couple of boar spears leaning up in corners, lots of cutlasses, swords and sabers hanging around, standing in corners, in closets. etc. And a walking stick or two by each exterior door.

Absolutely none of them are kept around for defense, although they could be used for that if necessary. Deterents are provided via fences, dogs and rattlesnakes (March to October).

Final defense are things very loud and relatively compact.
 
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