Sword Rampage at a Church in Germany

[Straybow]

Sword Rampage at a Church in Germany

This would not have happenned if more people carried swords with them. I blame this squarely on the lack of sword proliferation in our society. The truth is that swords are extremely safe when operated by trained users. Sword ownership prevents sword attacks.

No, no! Swords don't kill people, sharpness kills people! If that sword had been blunt those poor victims wouldn't be dead or maimed.

We need sword sharpening control. Those bastards who make their living sharpening swords should be sued!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Azazel
Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!

It was a church, so hey, it might have worked

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Amok comes from Indonesia, and entered our launguages when the government ran amok, slaughtering 500,000 Communists and suspected Communists and suspected Communist sympathyzers in 1965.

In Indonesia or the US?

You know, Stalin killed a lot more than 500k commie sympathizers...

[Az]

"I'm wearing boots of escaping!"

[Straybow]

Websters says

Etymology: Malay amok
: a murderous frenzy that occurs chiefly among Malays

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Straybow
Websters says

Etymology: Malay amok
: a murderous frenzy that occurs chiefly among Malays

Strange word. I can find a reference to the Philipines (it's in danish, sadly), but I remember vaugely it was used to describe the resisters against the US colonization of the isles.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:OrfZZgWXxJEJ:ph.auh.dk/psykroot/regioner/Syd/tvaerkulturel.pdf+amok+philipinerne&hl=da&client=firefox-a

Edit : Didn't like my url - dammit - replace the smiley with proper letters

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
There can be only one!

Holy ground.

[Whoha]

Re: Sword Rampage at a Church in Germany

Originally posted by St Leo
This would not have happened if more people carried swords with them. I blame this squarely on the lack of sword proliferation in our society. The truth is that swords are extremely safe when operated by trained users. Sword ownership prevents sword attacks.

the comparision is specious, swords take quite a bit of skill to wield correctly, firearms to not. further, a 90 pound woman is in no way going to be able to fend off a 300 pound man with any sword.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


In Indonesia or the US?

You know, Stalin killed a lot more than 500k commie sympathizers...

In Indonesia, which is a much smaller country than the USSR was. And they were all executed, not starved.

[pchang]

executed vs. Starved - not exactly a ringing endorsement

[DaShi]

Considering quite a few were executed as well. I don't understand the support for the double standard?

[Sikander]

Re: Re: Sword Rampage at a Church in Germany

Originally posted by Whoha

the comparision is specious, swords take quite a bit of skill to wield correctly, firearms to not. further, a 90 pound woman is in no way going to be able to fend off a 300 pound man with any sword.

Bullsh!t. Perhaps if the man is a trained martial artist and the woman is an anorexic novice the odds would be against her, but assuming that they are approximately evenly skilled, I'll take the skinny girl with the sword of her choice.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Thanks for the lesson, as I often build words in English like I do in German.

Auf Englisch : 'the same way as I do or would' .

'Like I do' is non-standard, and would mark you out as a scion of the chav classes, and you're too charming to warrant that happening to you inadvertently.


chegitz- 'amok' first appeared in English in the 17th Century, via the Portuguese 'amouco' .

From the Malay, 'rushing frenziedly'.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


In Indonesia or the US?

You know, Stalin killed a lot more than 500k commie sympathizers...

And this is relevant how...?

[Fake Boris]

Re: Sword Rampage at a Church in Germany

Originally posted by St Leo
This would not have happenned if more people carried swords with them. I blame this squarely on the lack of sword proliferation in our society. The truth is that swords are extremely safe when operated by trained users. Sword ownership prevents sword attacks.