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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.

Lew · 16th September 2009, 10:30 PM

[QUOTE=Jim McDougall]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 ?

Jim

It could have been a dha the police would have no clue and call it a samurai sword anyway

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Lew · 16th September 2009, 10:35 PM

Officer I was just oiling my 19th century wootz tulwar when I heard a strange noise coming from the garage.

The buglar jump high into the air and when he came down on the blade it just sliced him in two just like those silk scarfs

16th September 2009, 09:34 PM	#1
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,282	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, 10:30 PM	#2
Lew (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 3,191	[QUOTE=Jim McDougall]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 ? Jim It could have been a dha the police would have no clue and call it a samurai sword anyway ]

16th September 2009, 10:35 PM	#3
Lew (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 3,191	Officer I was just oiling my 19th century wootz tulwar when I heard a strange noise coming from the garage. The buglar jump high into the air and when he came down on the blade it just sliced him in two just like those silk scarfs