swords

With gears & swords and sprockets on show-hn and how to avoid overheating and chafing in armor in ask-hn.

Totally in favour of students learning how to shoot guns or bows or fence with swords.

Most swords were sidearms, not main battlefield weapons, analogous in role to an automatic pistol vs.

Slowly the artisans that were making swords 100-150 years ago have been migrating to kitchen knives, scissors and wood working tools.

To fight back they need a better trained army with superior bows and superior swords.

Likewise, real battles between knights didn't consist of them bashing at each other, using their swords crudely like glorified metal clubs.

Guns not being a significant part of Japan's industrial history, the Japanese continued their craft of swords until public carry was outlawed.

If you're looking for a shoddy metaphor you should probably use swords instead, because the legitimate uses of knives vastly outnumber the killing-people uses of them but swords have it the other way around.

As with bows and arrows, and swords, and crossbows (which, when cocked, are not so different from guns...

The focus though, tends to be on swords or hunting/outdoor or fighting knives.

The next four have learned to ride horses, swing swords, and wear armor.

Until the 1860s, steel was an exotic material, used mostly for knives, swords, and some gun barrels.

The swords illustrate the seven basic "strokes": six in a "flower", and one stab (the bottom one).

The author doesn't locate this observation in time, other than to mention "feudal," but I don't believe that a large enough percentage of the people using the roads, at any time, carried swords for this to be a determining factor in forming the custom.

Swords, sorcery, inter-world travel, dysfunctional royal family.