Also?
A year earlier, Eden Strang seriously wounded 11 people when he went on the rampage with a samurai sword at a Roman Catholic Church near his home in Thornton Heath, south London
My solution:
If some loon went around slashing at people with a sword in front of me, sorry, SIG beats sword.
And yes, I know it's not an option across the pond.
Once upon a time, someone would have just whipped out a Webley and "put a stop to such unpleasantries".
Oh well.
"In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons,"
within the next five years, it will read like this:
"In the wrong hands, cricket bat thingers are dangerous weapons,"