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Ames, Iowa is the home of Iowa State University.
That means there's fraternities and football players.
Way back in the depths of time, before playing D&D was OK for The Beautiful People® to play and before the term "cosplay" had mainstreamed...
If you were dressed in your persona for the Society of Creative Anachronisms and walking across campus in the wee hours during VIESHA, you might just be accosted by drunken versions of the Frat-Rat or Sportsballer.
Remember when I mentioned asymmetric response?
A wakizashi, while not a gun, is definitely more blade than three drunk jocks want to deal with at 3am.
Ames, Iowa, being the home of ISU, is also not a place where you go to the cops afterwards and explain how you brandished a sword at three assailants while on campus.
The Iowa State Police (not to be confused with the Iowa State Patrol) have a policy of punishing the closest person they think is breaking the rules and then ignoring everyone out of immediate reach.
Carrying a short sword on campus is a violation of their knife rules.
So one tends to get mum about such incidences.
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