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Originally Posted by Robert Coleman
Hi Jim,
I believe a Tabak is a type or bolo that had its start in Spanish Colonial times. IF I remember right the Spanish had the bright idea that if the people of the Philippines weapons had a blunt tip that it would help to make them less prone to aggressive behavior and the Spanish safer from attack. It didn't work very well though and seems that it was just another example of Military Intelligence at its best. 
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those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it. the UK is lobbying along these lines now, setting us up for future meaningless and ineffective bans; releasing reports by eminent UK doctors that there is no need for knives to have points and that if only they were mfg. with blunt tips that stabbings would go down. see the existing thread on UK samurai sword ban, when will we ever learn.....