What I want to know is, what parent under the sun thinks that it's a good idea to give their eight-year-old a real pair of heavy Japanese weapons to bring to a convention that's open to the public as part of their costume?

Weaaaapons. Wtf. Wtf. Wtf.

Also confiscated for the duration of that convention? At least a dozen katana, some of them not blunted at all, twice that many bokken, a bo-staff, and, of all things, a solid metal replica of a gunblade.

Whyyyyyyy?