Ah lads in all fairness

- most of the things being sold as samuri swords are not in fact samuri swords but
immatition samuri swords made of really crap steal - to my knowledge real samuri swords were hammer beaten and tempered blades folded hundreds of times, and a piece of silk, or of rice paper dropped on them would be immediately severed by their incredibly sharp blade. If a samuri sword is wielded by someone who is not a fully trained samuri from 400 years ago is it still a samuri sword? (because we all know that Tom Cruise is and was the last samuri!!!)Or just a cheap piece of martial arts and souvenier tat? Someone up on asian history please fill me in here
One would imagine that there is already considerable legislation dealing with offensive weapons and violence under the offences against the state and offences against the person acts - but in a knee jerk re-action politicians wanting to be seen as doing something by the electorate after a record two attacks involving
imitation samuri swords have hurried through further unnesecary legislation. The same week as one of the above mentioned attacks werent two Polish immigrants brutaly murdered with screwdrivers. Should screwdrivers be banned?
As fair as I know "samuri swords" were mentioned specificaly in this piece of legislation, I wouldent really get get worried until the legislation specifacaly mentions "broadswords", "claymores", Roman "gladoius" (am i spelling that right?) 1798 pikes and so on as specificaly as they have mentioned "samuri swords" in this bill act or whatever it is. Any way even if a member of an Garda Siochana did try to proseceute you for a re-enactment prop - dont all our swords have dull edges? In my opinion anyone who goes re-enacting with a fully live edged weapon
for anything other than strictly display purposes is dangerous and should be spoken to severly. Would you let me do WW1 of War of Independence re-enactments at a show you arganised with live 303 rounds??? I think not.
As for you Barry we all know that you are far from an officer and a gentleman - and as we all know such an un-cooth rebel scoundrel would sooner be admitted to a house of burlesque and sin in Monasterevin than the house of lords (A.K.A. the longest running farce in the west end!!!) Lord Edward indeed -another rebel raggamuffin!
Tommy Argue - well what can I say say I am shocked and appauled to the highest degree - how dare you argue that people have the right to protest about anything. You are probably one of those lilly livered liberals who thinks that just because people do an honest days work that they are somehow entitled to be payed for it! We have had enough of your bolshevick calls to arms here - GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!!! If you are going to spout suck daego clap trap then I suggest you take up July 14th 1789 regicide re-enactment than whatever period you do now. Your head should be set on a spike outside Dublin cCastle as a warning to the other plebs.
Yours most superiorily
Lord Haw Haw
(A.K.A. William Joyce )
No seriously lads the last two paragraphs are just taking the piss - im trying to be light hearted about all this nonsense - samurio sword ban indeed!!! (I Couldent find a smilie to express sarcastic outrage could the moderators please add one?)