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Old 09-16-2009, 01:24 PM
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The police spokesman said the student who wielded the weapon had no advanced sword training. "He wasn't a ninja," Guglielmi said. "He may have been moderately trained or on the intermediate level."
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So, that's the official terminology. An expert swordsman is a ninja?
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So, that's the official terminology. An expert swordsman is a ninja?
What do you expect from the guy says that: "He may have been moderately trained or on the intermediate level." They're the same thing!
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Maybe he meant a Samurai?
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It seems the investigation overlooked that the two were, in fact, immortals . . .

Anyway, it doesn't take "skill" to use a large sharp object and kill someone else with a few swings. It takes skill to disable someone w/o risking a fatal injury, but not to kill.

I'm not sure why the "not a ninja" comment was warranted apart from ignorance of the use of such (archaic) equipment.

Also, this seems to indicate that gun control laws might just be a moot point.
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It seems the investigation overlooked that the two were, in fact, immortals . . .

Anyway, it doesn't take "skill" to use a large sharp object and kill someone else with a few swings. It takes skill to disable someone w/o risking a fatal injury, but not to kill.

I'm not sure why the "not a ninja" comment was warranted apart from ignorance of the use of such (archaic) equipment.

Also, this seems to indicate that gun control laws might just be a moot point.
There can be only one.

Totally agree on the skill thing. Hard to be finesse with a heavy hackablade like the katana.
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One of the guys in my dorm was a black belt in kendo. Had done it for eight years. My freshmen year I did training with him. He was pretty ninja level. The kid in question was probably more at my level after a year of that stuff.
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