Tag: weapons

thes3nator:

nunyabizni:

tropicalhomestead:

sappho-official:

sappho-official:

So I was looking up drawing reference and I think I just found my new favorite stock photo of all time

Like there’s just…so many levels to this

  1. He’s a businessman holding a sword 
  2. He’s in front of the ocean 
  3.  It’s in black and white 
  4. He’s in like, a fencing stance? For some reason?
  5. He’s holding what I think is an arming sword?? Completely all kinds of incorrectly?????? It’s too heavy to be used like that, what the hell man
  6.  His left hand looks like he’s doing a jazz hand

For just $575 you can use this image for your business! And if you do, please tell me what the hell your business is.

Don’t talk to me or my Extreme Executive Fencing & Beach Soft Shoe League ever again.

@thes3nator is this a relative of yours?

One of many.

You mess with one of us, you mess with them all.

systlin:

forbosmargad:

lord-kitschener:

notabrobro:

swordmutual:

swordmutual:

debate: is a really long sword-length but still otherwise knife-like knife valid to be considered a knife, or is it now a sword because it’s long

@nagunkgunk

It’s a knword and it’s Valid

I don’t wanna like Kill The Joke but this brings up a really cool fact about swords in ~14th-16th century Germany! The only people who were allowed to own Real Swords were the royalty and nobility BUT! Everyone else was allowed to own knives. The definition of a knife, however, was based on not length but handle construction, and to some extent how it was sharpened. The handle had to be constructed Like So with 2 pieces of wood sandwiching the metal tang.

Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this

In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…

…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)

So @swordmutual, there’s a not definitive but certainly interesting historical perspective on your question

This post is a good post. 

bravadopinfire:

gallows-walker:

kasaron:

iicraft505:

I honestly don’t give a good shit about whether someone can conceal carry on city buses. I’m not worried about it. Nobody should be.

TBH barring carry on public transit is a pretty classist move, in my opinion. It means that people who can’t afford to own a car aren’t allowed to defend themselves.

How dare the filthy peasants want to carry a weapon on the kings roads, riding on his carriages.

See, that’s where Progressives reveal themselves. They talk about “equality,” but they fail on all counts, especially this one. Your average “peasant” cannot afford to live in a gated community, cannot afford private security, and therefore is at the mercy of criminals until the police arrive, in 10-30 minutes. Firearms are the equalizer. Knights and Nobility were often opposed to peasants with firearms, since it was easier to learn how to use a musket than a sword or bow, it required less strength, and it could pierce the armor of a nobleman. Peasants couldn’t spend time training in swords, bows, maces, and other weapons. A musket took little time to master, by comparison. That’s also why the nobility was eventually forced to adopt firearms en-masse. It was always a little reluctant, though, as peasants and former soldiers could storm an arsenal and make off with weapons, and then it was open rebellion.