Ah... Weapons!

Why use swords, sticks, chairs or other stuff when a 9mm automatic makes all the crap blow away from you helping you not to get blood on your suite?

I like throwing stars and monk staffs. Monk staffs are cool looking. I am also very fond of Vash the Stampede's "Silver" and the Angel Arm, Wolfwood's Cross Punisher and Gene Starwind's Caster Gun and Glovey things that make the little force field thing...yeah that's neat.

yeah, but how can you appreciate the kill unless you get blood on your suit. Guns are without soul. Handheld weaponry forces you to think before making a kill.

Gas Grenades, Nukes and Ballistic Missiles.

Those new epoxy guns the cops use are pretty neat too. Just spray it into the street and anybody who touches it is just stuck there. They are also using beam weapons that shoot beams of green light that temporarily blind crowds (coupla hours of blindness).

High tech all the way for me

I agree with blood rose. A gun would be too detached for me When..... sorry IF I kill someone I want to be close enough to smell their sweat, see the fear in their eyes and feel the blood splatter onto my face.

It would have to be a fair fight too, I do have a sense of martial honour, to best someone hand to hand with a pair of bushido Katanas must be the most exilerating feeling in existence. In modern weponry we have lost the spirit of the kill. The primal urges within us are being quashed, thats why ppl go crazy, they have no outlet for those feelings. War nowadays has no honour, there are no more great heros, war, I am sad to say, is part of the human mindset, we need conflict. Thats why I believe Bayonets are still used. You could just send in ordanence and clear the trenches, but instead they send out the men looking for blood.

War is a nesessary evil.

Without how would we know when there is peace.

i like the grace and speed of the martial arts style weaponry, although a large part of that is from skill. i love to fight with my hands, because you can hear em go crunch when you hit them right. i am also fond of the javelin and the bo

There is no joy in killing, which is why I prefer the most anonymous weapons possible. I would not enjoy seeing somebody dieing in front of me bleeding to death, begging for their life because of something I did to them. If I really were going to kill somebody, I wouldnt want to be there when it happened, which is why I say orbital lasers are the best way.

So go ahead and stand there waving around archaic stoneaged weaponry while fire rains from the sky. Its your funeral

(jus kiddin....really)


-- Stick n stones might break my bones, but not if I am on the other side of the world controlling satellite weaponry.



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I think I have to agree as well. And I think that perhaps people might be a little less gung ho to fight wars if they actually had to get their arse out there and fight hand-to-hand instead of sitting back and shooting a rocket over thousands of miles. Guns make it less real, more like a video game, especially the long-range weapons. Of course, if someone breaks into my house, I'm not going to fumble in the dark for my dirk. A gun is quicker for modern-day self-protection.

I've been researching long-bows to start with myself. There's such a Zen-like grace in it. And not those stupid-looking, Ted Nugent, high-tech bows ("Yeehaw! Did you hear that thing scream?!"). I'm talking about your weighty, traditional English, wooden, longbow. Something I can perhaps put some pretty carvings in and stain myself.

It's all fun n games until someone gets their eye shot out.

Or a spleen, intestines, half their left side...

Ha, Ted Nugent is such an obnoxious idiot sometimes it's almost funny (I do have a couple of his cds X) and some of the work he's done for hunting safety and conservation is actually pretty good)
Anyway I have to agree with you on the bows. English longbows, Japanese asymetrical bows, Eurasian horsebows, they all have so much more character than a super duper piece of plastic with pulleys.
As far as archery vs. firearms. Archery was much more accurate at range than firearms up until the the late 18th-early 19th centuries when rifled pieces were more accepted on the battlefield. Rifled longarms were used in hunting as early as the late 16th century, but their use in warfare was limited because they were considered "ungentlemanly" in fact during the American revolution, the American riflemen were often executed on the spot by the British, and the Hessian Jagers that were hired to counter the American marksmen were shunned by their British Employers. The reason archery did not persist was because it was easier to arm your troops with muskets. By the mid 16th century, highly effective arquebuses were being produced and gunpowder was readily available. While a musket cost more than a bow, it took great skill and training from childhood to make an expert bowman. Any jackdaw fool could be trained pretty quick how to shoot a musket relatively well, and of course marksmanship wasn't paramount when you were volley firing at between 50 and 100 yards.

P.S. If these history lessons are boring you people, please tell me to shut up.

If I did want a gun and used a gun, I would want a sniper rifle of some kind. That would be the only type of shooting with a gun that appeals to me. Running around with an M 16 just doesn't seem fun or fulfilling.

And this behaviour of any idiot firing a gun persists to this day. Technology has made it quicker and less work to kill someone...Am I becoming a Luddite?



I love history. I won't ask you to shut up.

Hmmmmmm, this is a tough question. Whilst I've been trained to fight with many hand to hand weapons, my two fave have got to be spears and Battle axes. Spears because they are easy to construct, have multiple uses, and very useful in large or small groups. I like battle axes mostly because of the hacking power.

I love the grace and speed of all small knives/blades, from the tanto to a plain old dagger. Personally I find the idea of some high speed kind of knife fighting coreography rather attractive. God knows I'd love to do it. I suppose you could liken it to the idea of capuera, but faster and more furious.



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