State senator wields bat to scare burglar
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — State Sen. Chris Edwards played baseball when he attended South Eugene High School and was ready to put those skills to use when a burglar entered his garage this week.
The lawmaker wielded an aluminum baseball bat as he chased the suspect away early Thursday.
Edwards called the intruder a "dirt bag" in a Facebook post shortly after the incident. He added: "It's probably for the best that I only had my Easton baseball bat when I caught you in the act."
The 39-year-old Democrat told The Register-Guard newspaper he owns guns but "wasn't looking for a firefight" in the middle of the night.
Eugene police have not found the burglar. They typically take about 200 reports each month from people who have had items stolen from vehicles.
And this guy is a Democrat. Heaven help the dirtbag if he starts picking on Republicans.
 @al_02 Yeah.
The Republicans would just look at him, mutter something unintelligible, and then yell, "NO!"
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Well, that's what they do in Washington DC!!! LOL!!!
Don't give Obama any ideas or he'll ban all bats except whiffle bats.
 @JLO He hasn't banned anything, yet.
Besides, that's for Congress to do...and you know they don't do anything that might endanger their jobs.
Too bad he didn't go all Gallagher on his head.
A senator with some common sense for a change
He did not need to bring a gun, it was a burglar per the story. It worked out great this time.
The burglar is very lucky they faced a person with common sense and not someone who would shoot first and then say "They feared for their life" after shooting someone.
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All the silly talk about assault bats etc, is just that...silly talk
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 @Just Lookin Excellent. So, now the guy can go out and be better prepared the next time he breaks into somebody's house.You're probably one of those people who can't figure out how weapons get in the hands of felons. Aw, hell, just give 'em another chance.
 @Just Lookin Common sense is not bringing a bat to a gun fight.
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The ONLY difference between the hero senator and a dead senator was the mere fact that this particular criminal was not armed and had the sense to leave when confronted.Â
Aluminum baseball bat! Oh my that is a militarized assault baseball bat. He should go to jail for not dropping to his knees and becoming a victim.
A bat is fine when you know your assailant is unarmed.
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Since it is against the law to use a weapon in the commission of a crime, one can feel safe in the idea that the person disregarding the law by breaking-in, is respecting that little tidbit about weapons?
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How do you know if your assailant has a gun or not? You don't. How do you know when you are about to be in a fire fight? You don't.
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Rule #1 to surviving a gun fight - bring a gun.
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This just goes to show that even the Dems that own guns can be colossally stupid.
Shame on you, Senator! First you threaten the poor, obviously down on his luck guy with violence, then you resort to name-calling after the fact. Be a good Democrat and look out for the poor, instead of wanting to hurt them physically and emotionally!
 @OSUx2 All we are saying is give peace a chance!
 @Playanekes  @OSUx2 I tried peas once.
Which? the Peas or the People?
 @Playanekes I know, it is now considered a GMO from people eating at McDonalds.
 @swede760 Due to excessive regulation as to what constitutes organic and genetically-non-modified foods, it is no longer certifiably Green soylent. It's just Soylent.
 @swede760 Only if you don't think about what's in it.
 Now wait! You have to admit it is better than the Soylent Green alternative.
@Conspirator @Playanekes @OSUx2 --- whirled peas are disgusting.
 @73challenger503 @Playanekes @Conspirator Imagine Whirled Peas!
 @Conspirator  @Playanekes  @OSUx2 Please! Give Peas a second chance!
The reason he went out with the bat is because he knows it is deadlier than an AR15!!!
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Doesn't an aluminum bat qualify as an assault bat? Oh, what devastation to humanity it could cause in the wrong hands. The legislature should address the issue of registering all bats, or preventing their use off the field. After all, their main reason for being is to batter the poor little baseball which only wants to be thrown back and forth. Â
 @jpk That's only if he were to hit the guy's balls out of the park.
 @jpk Only if it has a 30 Ball Magazine. Otherwise it is just a common Sporting Bat, now if you add accessories like Night Vision, Laser Scope and Grenade Launcher, then it would be an Assault Bat.
 @swede760  @jpk Night vision baseball would be awesome! I'm not a much of a grenade baseball player myself.
 @Playanekes You use Frags for Daytime but the Night Games you use Incendiary, way cool to watch.
I am assuming that the Aluminum Bat uses Basic, Base, Ball Amunition.
Geepers Creepers Mr. Edwards, OregonGate averted?
Actually I know some democrats who own guns and will use them to defend themselves, family or friends if necessary.
With that type of thinking, I can't figure out why they are democrats. Â I'm sure, that if many members of their party knew about that, they would be very upset and demand that they change their voter registration as far as party preference goes.
 @boomer Actually, here in Oregon there is a caucus within the Democratic Party for gun owners. This idea that gun owners aren't welcome as Democrats is wrong.
 @Jenni S.  @boomer It won't matter. Feinstein will ram the bill through, Obama will sign it, and it will become law.
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I don't know if you been watching the news lately, but the Republicans fight like the French these days. The odds of them stopping this legislation, when even Rupert Murdoch is squashing stories like the woman in Georgia, do not favor the 2nd Amendment.
 @boomer I know some Republicans who own guns and will use them to defend themselves, family or friends if necessary, but who are in favor of gun laws.
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With your black and white kind of thinking, perhaps I should send the Republican Party their names. Perhaps RNC will be upset and demand they change their voter registration.
 @SilverGuardian  @boomer Come up for air:
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 @boomer Good grief. So you think only Republicans own guns? How ridiculous. Most Democrats don't want to take them away from law abiding citizens. Your band wagon is crumbly at best.
 @SilverGuardian  @boomer Kinda like parroting that Romney would have single-handedly stripped a woman's right to kill her baby?
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OMGÂ An assult BAT we must BAN All bats!!!
Sometimes bats are far more convenient. Plus, if you happen to hit an unintended target typically you won't kill them, and it will only come up after food & drinks on Christmas when s/he brings up "that one time."Â
Nice job dude!
Could it be the college kids the reason that so many break-ins happen in Eugene?
 @Drinkers Anonymous Yes. That's what I've been told for years ...
I'm thinking about making a bat with a bayonet lug and a pistol grip because then it will be an assault weapon.
 @Playanekes Don't forget the 30 Base Ball Amunition Magazine, Night Vision, Laser Scope and Grenade Launcher The nice thing about a Bat is that if it Jams it is because you have jammed it up someone's backside.
I'll never understand people who use aluminum bats, talk about something that should be banned. Wood is the way to go Chris Edwards. Otherwise, kudos to you.
 @JTesla Aluminum bats don't break. I keep an aluminum Little-League bat next to my night-stand. It's much easier to swing indoors because it's short but does plenty-o'-damage! It also helps to have a Pit Bull by my bed also!
 @JTesla Louisville Slugger? ;-)
I like this guy, at least from this encounter. A responsible gun owner who used restraint and didn't shoot the guy. Just because he could legally have shot him but chose not to.
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If I dig deeper he is probably a very socialist liberal who likes to spend tax money on worthless stuff so for now I want to be ignorant and like him for his pro gun stand and B rating from the NRA.
 @RalphCramden Worthless stuff like paying for better health care for our veterans and maintaining social security, hmm Ralph?
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 @SilverGuardian  @RalphCramden Yeah, pretty much.
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Under universal health care, the Veterans Hospitals will become a redundancy, will they not? Haven't heard any of you people address those sorts of things. Also wondering why the Ronald Reagan Federal Building near Lloyd Center, which houses the BPA and DHS, has armed security guards carrying weapons the socialist liberals want to ban, right outside the federal building's day care facility.
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Speaking of Social Security, my cousin (a war-veteran college student...one of those that Bloomberg doesn't trust with guns) is a private armed security contractor for a certain federal office in a certain city, and, as an NRA instructor, he's one of the people the liberal socialists wanted to declare a "terrorist" which means that the federal government hires terrorists to carry weapons it wants to ban to guard the social security offices and federal buildings.
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This is what passes for common sense in liberal government nowadays.
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When they ask for ID I give them my gun permit. I have had several people at some stores thank me for packing my gun. One lady told me that she felt safer with people packing legal guns.
 @RalphCramden LOL!