Swords at the grocery store

While the local media’s attention is focused on just-passed legislation allowing guns in restaurants and on MARTA, I have discovered a far more pressing weapons-related issue.

The Buford Highway Farmer’s Market sells Samurai swords.

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They’re not authentic samurai swords, but they are real swords — sharp, metal and deadly. And they’re sitting on a shelf, at kid-height, in the housewares department.