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Every 4 years, the International Olympics Committee holds a summer celebration of athletics. In the "field" part of the "track & field" competitions, young men and women come from all over the world to throw a javelin to see who can throw one the furthest.

Nobody actually needs a javelin - which has been an absolutely brutal weapon of war for 5000-6000 years now. And NOBODY needs to be able to throw one more than a a couple of feet. Certainly, the IOC should treat javelins the exact same way it has treated firearms competitions in Olympics past, by totally emasculating the sport.

Who the heck needs to hit something, anything, with a sharpened stick from up to 98.48 meters away (the current world's record)? I’ll tell you who: a Spartan Hoplite or a Samurai, that’s who. They’re selling military-grade javelins to the general public. That’s what the javelin is, and that’s what all the various iterations of javelins are. Military-grade killing machines.

All of them are for sale on the open market here in the United States of America. You can go down to your local Academy sporting goods store and buy one tomorrow. That means you’ll be able to set the darn thing up on your shoulder and hit a so-called “soft target” so far away you can't easily tell what color their eyes are.