A knife is a tool, but a sword is a weapon A gun's for a fool to send souls up to heaven50 years ago people left school at fifteen. 100 years ago they laboured in factories and mines as children.
In some countries it remains socially and economically necessary to have child labour. Fortunatley in the west it is not.
I've sat on rolling field watching and laughed and cried watching 50 year old men squeeze themselves into chain link armour and club each other with blunted swords to celebrate a time when our country was a frontier where you had to see to your own protection.
I havn't seen any lords or ladies wearing plate or carrying swords because they have rights set down in the Magna Carta.
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