Last night, I came across a video of a man in Chicago threatening people with a baseball bat, which made me curious about the frequency of bat attacks.
I never thought this would be a topic, and the results surprised me because finding a list of incidents was way too easy.
In the past few weeks, here are a few that made headlines:
-On Sunday in Newark, a man with a bat repeatedly hit someone waiting on a bus.
-A man with a baseball bat randomly attacked a woman in NYC.
Five Hispanic males hit a man in the head with a baseball and stole his shoes in Arlington, Va.
-A man faces hate crime charges for calling a man a “dirty Jew” and assaulting him with a baseball bat on Staten Island.
-Seven men with a baseball bat attacked three men in New York.
-In England, around a dozen people attacked a man in his 20s with a baseball bat and repeatedly punched him. I’m including England because they employ alternative means and have stringent firearm laws.
We might as well add baseball bats to the banned items you can carry.
So again, I ask, is it a weapon problem like firearms, or is it a person with evil intent?
