Originally Posted by
JFord
My concern is that a sword (or sword cane) might actually be considered worse than a gun by both the prosecution and the jury. Running a guy through or even more picturesquely, decapitating him is gonna raise some eyebrows. It's kind of like why you don't want "Kill them all. Let God sort 'em out later" embossed on your defensive handgun.
If we've learned anything from the Rittenhouse case, let's get all our ducks lined up before going into a deadly force scenario. You kill someone, plan on being arrested and prosecuted, self-defense or not.