If needed for Defence could a stainless steel sword kill someone my buddy wanted this sword for Defece after it is sharpend here is a picture
Anything sharp can kill. The serious problem with stainless steel swords is that they're brittle, cheap and ONLY meant for display, and nothing more.
Stainless steel only works for knives, anything past 12 inches it starts getting brittle, carbon steel is what you are looking for. As far as home defense, if you don't know how to use it, you will be worse off.
Ya it could kill someone if it was sharpened enough but from experience stainless steel swords don't get as sharp as Carbon or higher grade steel. Not to mention it would probably bend if you hit someone with it all the way. Hell the one I let some people who were chopping a bush ( just a normal bush ) they were playing around and it got bent. I'm going to say I can't suggest a stainless steel sword for anything other then handing on your wall. Not even going into the whole If you use a sword for self defense is it considered self defense? debate. It's a sketchy situation not to mention you would need training with a sword to actually use it without it just getting brushed off.
