I was going to joke about stricter samurai-sword-control laws — if you outlaw swords, only outlaws will have swords — then I thought, aren’t swords already controlled in Germany? From Yahoo! News – Man on Trial for Decapitating Mother with Sword:
A German man has gone on trial accused of decapitating his mother with a Samurai sword.Prosecutors say the 22-year-old, identified only as Axel T., beheaded his mother last June after his parents wanted to move him out of the family home in Munich, a court spokesman said on Tuesday.
The man, who has a history of drug problems, ran into the kitchen where his mother was reading a newspaper and cut off her head with the 45-centimeter blade, the spokesman said.
‘Then he wanted to kill his father who was in another room.’
But the son called the police instead and blamed his father for the crime.
The trial started on Monday.