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I did consider to continue the series with the sasumata or the (not terribly exotic or ancient) boar sword, but did put this off for a long time because the sasumata seemed too impractical, too weird to me. I saw a lot of weird weapons from the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines, but the sasumata seemed too weird.
Yet I saw it's actually still in use. That blew my mind. It's one of those things that are truly alien in some other part of the world.
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The brave police of Communist China fear no opponent! pic.twitter.com/oHL1kqiKLt
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It's even worse; this to me totally alien concept of a weapon/police tool was actually also a thing in Europe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_catcher
It would (in a non-thorny version) probably be useful in the UK, where many suspects are armed with a knife.
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It seems to need considerably more manpower to hold someone down.
ReplyDeleteIf only American police used these things, there wouldn't be cases of George Floyd.
ReplyDeleteBut who am I kidding, guns are sold like smartphones there.
Old boy Phil's beat you to the punch
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