>>12517119A Sword is a big ass knife that to use effectively requires so much training time that it spawns a class of over priviledged parasite that sucks a population dry.
A firearm is an equalizer that makes a 95 pound girl the combat equal of a 250 pound muscled swordsman intent on rape.
Without firearms you have rule of the biggest and meanest.
But a sword has an intimidation factor in our modern society. I'm remembering getting a call at work to come to the police station. My petite wife was picked up chasing a peeping tom down the street with a katana while wearing a babydoll nightie and bunny slippers.