Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/08/2010 7:08:17 PM PST by marktwain
Right! The legal knife is a better weapon.
But quills require sharpening ... classically done with a ... penknife.
Anyone who tells you otherwise has either never really thought through the idea sufficiently, or doesn't want you armed for some reason.
It's a personal choice. Government, via the 2nd Amendment, cannot legitimately infringe that Right.
Well, there is that. Of course the schools could hire a “quill sharpener for every school.........
>As it turns out... there was a very highly developed, effective and spiritual martial art developed over centuries in the west that was every bit a counterpart to the better advertised oriental martial arts.
What’s its name?
There was a highly developed martial art in the west it is called fire arms training.
Funny that you ask... it didn't really have a name. It was just the "fighting arts" or "the art of defence" (or fencing). There were different schools in various places and they had minor differences but they largely taught a very similar set of techniques. There were different terms for different situations, and they varied according to the language in use. Like "Ringen" for unarmed combat (wrestling), "Blossfechten" for unarmored longsword... and such. The terms mainly just referred to the different weapons of Longsword, Dagger, Staff, Poleaxe... or unarmed. They tended to fall into schools around certain masters, like Lichtenauer in Germany, or Fiore de Liberi in Italy. But they did not really develop into separate "styles" like their asian counterparts did.
You can say that again.
Stainless steel swords? Talking about asking for a backbiter.
Nothing like a good gladius or lakonia IMO.
when they outlaw pointy sticks, we’ll have to know how to defend against bananas...
A recent news story tells of a school which did exactly that: banned pencils because they were too dangerous.
GA recently amended its CCW laws to include large knives as permissible-with-carry-permit weapons.
Yup!!..Lets team up!....I like the way you said that!
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