The most beautiful sword is one that can remain in it's sheath. I have weapons, I have a very technical interest in them. I have the tooling to make guns from scratch, but I just watched a video of a very young well known in his neighborhood Black youth murdered by an ex-cop, ex-detective, shot with a .357 magnum and shotgun murdered on the streets while the ex cop's friend, in another vehicle videoed the whole process, and they walk the streets free. That's premeditated, that's murder. If they really though this man, who as next to his mother's house was a robbery suspect, the could have physically held him down. Like the cowards they were,, they out manned this kid, and shot him to death for absolutely no reason, but then again, it was Georgia. I know many people from Georgia, they tell me there is a long time problem down there called racism that seems to be passed on by parents to children. I can take a 3/4" down of wood, and I assure you, I can detain anyone I have ever met with it, if they are only in a T-shirt and shorts, wearing sneakers.
I know a lot of people who are proficient in weaponry, but the amount of them that I would trust to do the right thing if coming upon a situation where a kid, with just a T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers on is being beaten, and about to be shot with a shotgun and .357 would pull out their weapons to intercede drops to virtually nil.
I don't make this stuff up.
I am a person of "color". I make it a point to know the police of the small Connecticut towns I have lived in because the racism up here is like a church fart, "Silent but deadly". At least they know who I am and have come to trust me, especially as I have saved the lives of two people in this town, and most embarrassing was that it made the news papers. I pity the other people of color who drive around viewing the beautiful picturesque houses and lakes where I live. In the Summer, I see them getting pulled over all the time.
Rhaven, weapons can't be your religion, they are inanimate objects. They are tools. I think you just like them a real lot. So do I. I think that blade weapons are fantastic for the skill that goes into making them. I like rifles more than handguns. I wish I could shoot a longbow like you can, but having a ruptured Thoracic disc makes that impossible.
A very good friend of mine is a U.S. Marshall for homeland Security. He was on my property, and we were walking around my Barn. I asked him, how many weapons do you see here. He pointed out around 40 objects that he considered extremely effective at killing someone. Just things around the yard. Almost anything can be made into a weapon. My hands are registered with the police as deadly weapons because of an incident. I had to take someone down who was attacking a helpless person. I was not charged, I was commended, but because of the method I used, they said they considered me to be in that category.
It would do me no good if someone decided that in if I, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, looked like a robbery suspect and decided to murder me. No weapon you own can protect you from being blind sided like that., no matter how proficient you are in them.
Preachy post, but the flavor of it in the present climate disturbed me for some reason. Get the economy going, it'll just cost a couple of 100,000 lives. You canot serve God and Mammon (Money).
Inkscape, we need a tutorial section for Inkscape.
