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Horus

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I sleep with a knife beside my bed. My wife (and probably some others) terms this as an excessive behaviour, however I feel pleasant and safe.
How do you feel about this?

Horus
 
My wife and I both sleep with knives next to us in the head of our bed. She doesn't think I'm paranoid.
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The shotgun is a few feet away...

--Bob Q
 
Not at all.

On the other hand, wearing a knife into the shower....
 
Just one?!!
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Hoodoo

I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
 
As a teenager I had knife hideouts carved into parts of my headboard for a couple switchblades and a sheathed throwing knife tacked to the underside of one of the shelves. I kept a rather large trashcan by my bedroom door and I would practise sitting up in bed and nailing it with the throwing knife. I got so that I could do it in the dark or with my eyes closed.

No, you're not excessive, merely under-trained.


[This message has been edited by Jeff Clark (edited 05-14-2001).]
 
You are all crazy and paranoid!! Oh wait a minute, I sleep with my knife next to my bed, and some others in my night stand. I guess I'm crazy too. Tell your wife she will be happy it's there, when you can't find the brazier latch. (Just kidding.)
 
I sleep with a Hayes damascus tanto beside my bed. and I have a Battle mistress and a Polkowski strategically placed nearby. I think I'm underarmed.
 
Not excessive at all, but I like the notion of a strategically placed firearm better. Maybe "cocked and locked". I've always been a little afraid of someone entering by stealth, quietly picking up a blade and....

Ooooo, not a nice thought.
 
I am living in a different country, where many "things" are different: houses are made of concrete, doors are heavy, streets are well lighted, neighbour DO care, etc...
So my alarm-system: two dogs (daddy & daughter) will give me all the time required to get whatever is needed for the purpose and is NOT very far away.
If you think "Westies" are too small, you did not try to get passed them. (the wolfe inside every dog is the same size, it's just the "wrapping" that is different)
My neighbours think, that walking my dogs around, already keeps the neigbourhood clean of "vermine".
Happy hunting
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Not at all! I keep a Ka Bar 8" 1095 Tanto fighter next to the bed. Someone told me that last summer, a villain climbed up a conservatory and into an upstairs window that was open (summer). He stood on a lad who was in bed...

Lets just say I am ready for that eventuality.
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Rule number 1. Do what you need to do, then put a kitchen knife in his hand an get his finger prints all over it, then cut yourself with it and throw it on the floor. Self defence... Thats what I read somewhere? Sounds good to me. The law in the UK states you are permitted to use reasonable force. This is accepted as meaning less or equal force in self defence. He had a knife, I had a knife. No case. So I have been told...

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Wayne.
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A few useful details on UK laws and some nice reviews!
http://members.aol.com/knivesuk/
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I think you are underarmed. A knife? Please. I like knives but let's face it a gun is much better for getting rid of unwanted intruders. Personally its a .45 acp on my nightstand.
 
It is prudent to have something with a bit less wall penetration for use in the home than a .45 (20 gauge with birdshot is nice). It's also kind of easy to make a mistake with a gun in the dark. With mostly friendlies in the house it's nice to have something that makes less noise and is harder to employ by mistake.
 
I thought everyone kept a knife by their bed
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I keep the majority of my knives on my nightstand. That way I can just grab one in the morning.And I guess they'd be there for other occasions too. I don't worry about that much though.

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I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer... but I've got the sharpest knife in the room.
 
Triton,
I agree. That's what I meant by being underarmed. But my wife is uncomfortable enough with my knives. The gun is kept away from the kids.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Horus:
I sleep with a knife beside my bed. My wife (and probably some others) terms this as an excessive behaviour, however I feel pleasant and safe.
How do you feel about this?

Horus</font>
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I am really surprised, no one mentioned that you had misspelled obsessive. !-) A. G.
 
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