User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Speculative Spitballing: The Future of RWBY's Mooks/@comment-108.220.55.74-20150828041704/@comment-25857155-20150828044547

(Blinks.)  You mean it's unusual for someone to use a lethal weapon as a comfort item? (Blinks again, then hides a surprisingly long and sharp lance of unusual design behind his back.)

Oh. Hehe.

Anyway, remember that this is a work of fiction - they can afford to bend the rules of logic a bit.