<p>IBClass06:</p>
<p>Have you been through a traumatic experience like a house intrusion in your life?</p>
<p>If you hear rustling in the back of the garage, it’s completely normal to investigate with a Samurai sword.</p>
<p>(Please note that this is in the context where you had been burglarized the night before and two laptops + a PS3 is missing) You would be more prone to take precautions such as protecting yourself after a traumatic experience like that…</p>
<p>Patrolling your own territory and arming yourself with sufficient protection is better than meeting a potential foe with nothing at all. It’s that simple.</p>
<p>Even if the Samurai sword is insufficient against a gun, Maryland’s Castle Doctrine states that a home owner is not obligated to retreat from an intruder or attacker if he is within the confines of his own home. He has every right to investigate and brandish a weapon for his own protection. Especially against repeat robberies within 24 hours…</p>
<p>Christopher Elser, a SAE brother at JHU was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder (homeless man) when he confronted the man in the SAE house. Chris Elser was unarmed… I mean, John Pontillo’s case would have ended differently without the Samurai sword.</p>
<p>Hooray for him turning the tables against the attacker.</p>