Originally Posted by Tom Yum

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For example, police officers ride bicycles and horses on duty in environments that cars cannot efficiently maneuver in - in places like amusement parks or areas where there are alot of people, obstacles or narrow passageways. These forms of transportation allow relatively quick and mobile transportation in such an environment although they are not as efficient as an automobile.

The sword is a bulky, old fashioned weapon that you'll almost never see anywhere and I'd put my money on the firearm over it in most situations but I'd hate to be at the end of a sword handled by an effective swordsman even with another edged or blunt weapon in hand - a sword could make a decent self-defense weapon in the privacy of one's own home in such hands, as exotic as it might seem.

As a street weapon? Obviously not.