Guns make noise. Knives can kill silently. Also people with guns can stop other people with guns. If I only have a knife and someone else has a knife or gun killing people. I'm not fucking going to try to stab them
>And you don't have to be a nutter to shoot up a bunch of innocent people?
You do realize that real life is NOTHING like COD, right?
You're both missing the point, shooting someone is easier than stabbing someone to death as its more personal
Shooting someone at distance is easier as there is a personal disconnect. Whereas getting in their face feeling their breath, emotion / fear and stabbing the fuck out of them covering yourself in their blood is really personal.
Which would you prefer using a gun or a knife? lets see who the psycho is here.
Surprisingly, no. A knife is MUCH easier to use.
You take a generic civilian, give them a gun, they can't hit anything beyond 10 feet. Anything within 10 feet will take multiple shots to hit.
Whereas with a knife, stab 'em with the pointy end.
One of the most important factors in mass killings is distance to target. Almost all mass killing have the majority of casualties within spitting distance. This is because pretty much all weapons are more effective at close range. Knives and guns both.
That being said guns are more deadly. We as a species have figured out that the most effective way at killing one another is to rip giant holes in our internal organs, and so all our weapons are designed to do this. Knives just poke in and rummage around. Bullets are designed to put a large hole in an internal organ.
With sufficient training, a knife is more effective than a gun. Likewise, with sufficient training, a gun is more effective than a knife. This goes back to the distance to target thing. For example. If you have a gun, and a trained attacker has a knife, you die if he is 30 feet away from you. Yes, you with the gun, will die to the guy 30 feet away with the knife. It's a statistical fact. Knives are scary.
The point of this is, both guns and knives kill people very well. Both can kill MANY people very well. Guns have a longer effective range with training, and are able to kill people in some situations at a faster rate. But this is missing the point: the problem here is the nutter. If someone wakes up and decides he's going to kill 50 people today, then 50 people are probably going to die no matter what tool he chooses.