"Eccentric Enigma"
"Texinadawolf"
"Eccentric Enigma"
Any person who would spend years of their life training to kill your fellow man means that they've already forfeited any chance of greatness, or of being a human, because they lack the brain power and integrity to work out a reasonable solution to whatever petty quarrel they may have. Furthermore, you're overlooking the most important part of you argument, that being its all APPLES and ORANGES! Both serve primarily different killing functions, the sword being short range, and the gun replacing bows as a long range. While you can pistolwhip someone or throw your sword through their skull (a la monty python's holy grail) both are still superior in their respective category.
And let's not all forget what happened in the pulp fiction pawn shop.
The People who spend years training to kill do so to protect the peace
Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
Pistols are short ranged combat weapons and are thus superior to the sword axe mace and so on.
If you want peace then lay down your arms and work in harmony rather than building up the next biggest stock of weaponry until one being or nation decides they "need"(want) more and will use their forceful, rather than diplomatic, armaments to do so. When everyone holds a gun for defense, is it not only because you fear the attack from the gun of another? Im sure you've all heard an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
As for pistols being short range, you certainly cant pass off the hand axe or throwing knives/stars.
Even still, to see any sort or armed combat between any of these craptasticly debatable and deplorable weapons is just not practical in this day and age. The only conclusion that will be reached is when some jerkass on the other side of the globe with his finger on the button (trigger if you will) blows up your house, family, and dog and all survivors, the thugs and the shut ins, can finally agree to wrap their lips around the peaceful and protectice barrel to avoid the painful demise of nuclear fall out.v 3nodding "Si Vis Pacem, Parabellum."
"If you Wish for Peace, Prepare For War"
Good luck when you are VIOLENTLY TAKEN OVER by your enemy when you laid down your arms.
Tell me, I enter your home and I hack at you with a machete. Will you not defend yourself? You seem to be advocating that you NOT FIGHT BACK no matter what is happening.
I sense uber-pacifist bullshit, young skywalker!