A pocket knife has better chance of being sharp, since most people who own a sword (usually as a novelty) never sharpen it properly, but will just as soon buy another cheap knife when the old one loses it’s edge. Swordfighting also requires practice with the weight. Even well balanced swords (which most are not) take some experience to wield efficiently, let alone while getting the blade edge to strike the moving (possibly panicking) target accurately and straight. Finally there’s a reason a long straight sword has been one of the most frequently improved upon (shortened and curved) blade designs in history; it’s terribly designed for thrusting or slicing. It’s basically a pole weapon with an edge. Inside a modern airplane a pocket knife is a far more effective weapon. You know, until the air marshal stuns you and the crew behind the impenetrable door makes an emergency landing so they can drag you off to Cuba.
I prefer to call them what they are, the rejected rentacops of the Trained Sexual Assaulters.
