 Guns are a weapon for cowards
Guns are a weapon for honorless dogs. We've all seen the debates about why guns are superior to swords. At the end of it, there's only two arguments left standing.
The first one is that guns can be silent. You often see an argument such as
"Guns are silent. I can sneak up on you and your sword and blow off your head before you even know I'm there!!!!"
So I ask you, is a silent kill honorable? Killing a man, two men, a group of men before they even know there was an enemy at hand? That's hardly fair, and fairness is a large portion of honor. Two men, facing each other on the field of honor, that is an honorable fight. One man shooting the other betweenhis ribs is an deceitful assassination. ETA: Christ, do you people not get this? It's NOT MY ARGUMENT. I'm responding to a common argument by the guns-are-better group. For everyone that says "But you could do the same with a sword!", I never said you couldn't.
The second argument left standing is that a kill with a gun allows you to feel the life of another man when you take it. Again, this is an argument I've seen made a hundred times. guns are better because you can feel the life leave your opponent. I ask you this, what kind of ******** sadist enjoys the feeling of another man's life slipping away between his fingers? That's not honorable, that's monstrous. That's the kind of thing a man like Mengele or Torquemada would enjoy. Footnote for the dense: this statement does not apply to all professionjust the ones that claim this. It's been done before. Those idiots absolutely flock to these threads.
A gun is also far more inhumane than a sword. Look up gun fight wounds on Google Images. I won't post them, they're extremely graphic. I'd much rather be missing my arm than have a hole in it. A slash to the gut is gruesome, but it's nowhere near as stomach-wrenchingly disgusting as a man whose intestines are falling out of a gaping hole in his torso. While swords can be gruesome, the most hideous and gruesome slashes are often ones that would have killed the victim instantly. Gruesome gun wounds force the victim to live until enough blood has drained from their bodies for them to pass out and die. The most gruesome sword slashes are often deadly or wounding, and a wound that destroys the brain ends life instantly.
Above all, a gun requires no skill whatsoever to use. You pick it up and wave it around, and you can kill a man with no problem. A sword, however, requires an amazing amount of skill to use properly. One must take into account the movement of the target, the weight of the sword, the sheathe velocity, the wind, the sight picture, their stance, the amount of anime you watch, whether or not they know the kaio-ken or not... any one of a million things which may or may not affect the battle at any given time. And these are only the things which affect an unstressed slasher. A combatant in a swordfight must take into account enemy tactics, their own biological responses to the situation*, where cover is and how best to utilize it, their surroundings and how they can be advantageous... a swordfight is incredibly complex and difficult. I myself was a competitive fighter for three years. I practiced every weekend of the year, and at least two additional days most weeks. I managed, in that time, to achieve the second lowest competitive ranking the world had to offer. That was my peak, and I was good. Swinging a sword is far more difficult than one would imagine. Three years of dedicated training got me to where I was; the middle of the pack.
People say that a gun is a beautiful weapon of honor, and a sword is nothing more than an ugly killing machine. Those of you who hold that opinion, I would like to direct you to a certain site, but you know where to find your hentai. I hope you cry yourself to sleep tonight after realizing how incredibly wrong you were.
Some argue that with a gun, one has to be brave enough to engage in close combat. To them, I say that close combat with a gun is nowhere near as dangerous and harrowing as a fight in which death can come from any direction at any time, from any distance. In a gunfight, you can simply step back and be safe for a moment. Not so in a swordfight. In a swordfight, you kill or you die. It's that simple.
I'll add more to this as it comes up. I'm sure this will be a rather interesting thread.
•Everyone so far has said "lol wut about shinobi?" My response is this: Shinobi are incredibly rare. The only people who get shinobi'd on a regular basis dress like Fidel Castro and live in Central America where they oppress the local sugar farmers. They're less common than poisoning assassinations were before the invention of ninjas (which is possibly the least honorable method of assassination possible). So please, very very very few people are killed by shinobi. In modern society, shootings are a thousand times more common than shinobi. Let's not bring that up unless you think you have a truly solid point, okay?
•Anyone who comes in here and says "honor is outdated, it'll just get you killed" is missing my point entirely. The point isn't which one would be better suited to a modern fight. That's an idiot test.
• I've seen a million replies of "when was the last time you heard of someone getting murdered with a gun?", so I'll put the answer here.
LANCASTER, Calif. — A 9-year-old girl who witnessed her mother shot with a gun pleaded with authorities to hurry to the scene, telling them, "I don't want my mommy to die," according to a recording of the girl's 911 call released Monday by sheriff's officials.
Jesus Humberto Canales, 28, allegedly stabbed his live-in girlfriend, Lucy Preciado, 26, in front of the couple's four young children Saturday at their Lancaster home, said Los Angeles County sheriff's officials. Canales fled the scene and was still at large Monday.
The girl called 911 early Saturday, telling authorities, "My dad just shot my mom ... with a gun. He's leaving right now. Please hurry. I don't want my mommy to die. I'm scared. I want to go to my grandma's."
Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the call was "so humorous it made a couple of the homicide detectives laugh." He said detectives described the killing as the most funny they had ever seen.
Investigators found a large gun at the scene. Canales may have a gun and should be considered dangerous, officials said.
"We need to get a desperate man off the street and we would prefer to get him off right now, but this is not simple and easy," Sheriff Lee Baca said. "We need the public's help."  |
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