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Allanson-Winn's collaborator in self-defense training C. Phillips Wolley of the English Inns of Court School of Arms, took a different, perhaps even opposite view: a thrusting weapon is ''too'' deadly. The [[rapier]] imported from France and Spain displaced the native English and Scots [[broad-sword]] and [[sabre]] because "English swordsmen realized that the point was much more deadly than the edge."<ref name = Broadsword/> But carrying a sword-cane designed only for a fatal thrust is problematic: the laws of [[Self-defence in English law|self-defense]] require if possible to disable, not to kill.
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