My state has never had any restrictions on knives or bladed weapons other than ballistic knives, "throwing stars", and not having them in places like schools or brandishing them at people. As I said back then there is no reason then, that I couldn't wear a sword, and yet the """ legal experts""" on PotD seemed to think they knew better.
...Although I still don't have the money for a sword (a real one, not a cheap wall hanger) so the dream is still dead.
Have you had any actual sword training?
Including sparring w wasters or boktos?
And if you don't know what both of those are you shouldn't be touching a sword.
If you know how to actually use One which means sparring full contact (w gear obviously) with either of the two then by all means speak up. Otherwise you are just like some untrained idiot in the Renaciance walking around w a weapon but not knowing how to use it and just as likely to get yourself killed as the other guy.
So yeah- swords. Guns knives dildobats. Should only be carried by people who have had some basic level of competency training to use them.
Now me- my level of that would be a higher bar. But yeah. It's a basic discussion. If you don't know what you are doing you don't get to play Connor mcleaud.
This is how i feel too. Even with firearms. People should be allowed to carry but they need basic understanding of the weapon. Even then though, not eveyone is gonna be able to use that when somethig really goes down. Psych evaluations should be mandatory too. But thats a whole nother can of worms. Sory if i hijacked hahahah ---