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Jim McDougall · 16th September 2009, 09:34 PM

Let the editorials begin!
Maybe everyone will join in and discuss what 'they would do' and all the hubris and bravado to go with it.
Now what I want to know is, how do we know it was a 'Samurai' sword....what if it was simply a Showa era military sword that was industrially produced? Would a true collector of early Samurai swords and blades grab a tens of thousands of dollar valued katana to hack away at a burgler with ?

In a life threatening situation, anything is a weapon...... and regarded as a 'weapon of opportunity'. Why not discuss all the same kinds of situations where individuals are clobbered with blunt force by hammers, crowbars or stabbed with huge butcher knives.........it would be impossible to talk about shootings, which are no less tragic or dramatic, but after all, thats just..uh, news.

So thats my perspective, why close this discussion?

lets have some more chest pounding

great break from talking about historical weapons.

16th September 2009, 09:34 PM	#8
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,278	Let the editorials begin! Maybe everyone will join in and discuss what 'they would do' and all the hubris and bravado to go with it. Now what I want to know is, how do we know it was a 'Samurai' sword....what if it was simply a Showa era military sword that was industrially produced? Would a true collector of early Samurai swords and blades grab a tens of thousands of dollar valued katana to hack away at a burgler with ? In a life threatening situation, anything is a weapon...... and regarded as a 'weapon of opportunity'. Why not discuss all the same kinds of situations where individuals are clobbered with blunt force by hammers, crowbars or stabbed with huge butcher knives.........it would be impossible to talk about shootings, which are no less tragic or dramatic, but after all, thats just..uh, news. So thats my perspective, why close this discussion? lets have some more chest pounding great break from talking about historical weapons.