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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6265561" data-attributes="member: 6750039">Is that a risk you're willing to take?  Not me!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But not socially accepted outside of special cases.And I can buy a gun at Wal-Mart.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />EDIT: Whoops!  Almost forgot my argument winning anecdote (jk, of course)!  My dad once had the police called on him because someone thought he was carrying a gun.  The 'gun' was a walking stick and, oddly enough, the place where he was carrying it was alsoi a place where carrying a gun is legal.  The cops still showed up ... and apologized for inconveniencing my dad.  Anyhoo, as I said, 'weapon-y'.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Yeah, it's mostly their impracticality.  Unless you need one, the pain in the rear outweighs the slick, fashionable look.Plus I really don't think that the majority of folks would be comfortable if the youth of today decided to bring back canes.  A quintet of rakishly dressed high schoolers twirling canes down the street after dark would probably not be met terribly well.  I would guess that most schools wouldn't be too happy with a fashion statement of that nature either.  Weapon-y.Most of the cool cane weapons are illegal.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  By that I mean 'illegal to actually carry'.  You can buy 'em all day long, you just can't use 'em.  Sounds insane, I know, but weapons have a lot of silly rules.  For example: In my state I could buy a 40 round or bigger AR15 magazine and keep it perfectly legally.  The moment I put it into my AR, though, I'd be breaking the law.  For some reason, the state, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make magazines with a capacity greater than 31 rounds (on per day for the longest months?  I really don't know) legal for use only in NFA registered weapons.  So what that means is that I could buy a 40 round mag and keep it so long as I never, ever load it and put it into my 16" barreled standard AR15.  My friend, otoh, can buy one, load it and put it into his 10" barreled NFA registered (SBR) AR15 rifle.  But that's not silly.  Not at all.  Anyhoo, yeah, cane swords and the like are often perfectly legal to own and yet totally illegal to carry or - especially - use.And yeah, the French have some decent martial arts.  It's ... odd.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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