What job can a tire iron do while trying to get out of your flooded home, or escape a wildfire?
What can a baseball bat do for the residents of Helsinki in the event of armed aggression against Finland?
We invented that shit and named it according to said aggressor.
“When a disaster strikes, like the flooding in Houston [after Hurricane Harvey], for example, you see everyday people pouring out all this generosity and solidarity,” says Christian Parenti, associate professor of economics at John Jay College in New York City. ...
"This idea is reinforced by author Rebecca Solnit in her landmark book, “A Paradise Built in Hell,” in which she explains that, “in the wake of an earthquake, a bombing, or a major storm, most people are altruistic, urgently engaged in caring for themselves and those around them, strangers and neighbors as well as friends and loved ones.”
Okay, it does happen in Siege of Leningrad conditions where people will murder for a ration card, but even then it was not something people were just going around and doing.
Irrational concerns are a very different topic. That's why I have a special rock to keeps tigers away.
I ended with "What can a baseball bat do for the residents of Helsinki in the event of armed aggression against Finland?"
A bat doesn't weaken a missile or drone attack, and it encourages the armed soldier to shoot you.