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I have a sword that I seized from another individual. Every once in a while, I show it to someone. What do they do? pick it up and start swinging it.
Thanks to over 50 years of tv entertainment and the toy industry, weapons are no longer seen as things that transfer death from one person to another. They are toys, nothing but props in an imaginary game.
Swish! Swish! "look at me, I'm sir lancelot!"
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Yep that is exactly the kind of thing I was on about. Those of us who don't pull the trigger or swing the sword are the strange ones, statistically. And we are nuts - just plain nuts if we think for a moment that there is anything intuitive or natural about safe weapons handling.