Originally Posted By: A R McDaniel Jr


The English forbid the Irish from carrying weapons so they could control them. the Irish began carrying walking sticks made of Blackthorn. Perhaps the shilelagh will make a 21st Century comeback!

Alan


Asian martial arts is a whole school for teaching the use of farm implements as weapons. It rose up because of oppressive arms control three hundred or more years ago.
Now those farm implements are on the prohibited weapons list.
Nun chucks for example. Not so the Samurai Katana, work that out.

O.M