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!"