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Tuna Ghost: Dude, using a knife, particularly a giant-fuckoff Cleaver against another human being, even one about to kill you, is going to psychologically scar you infinitely more than a gun would.
Getting down to grisly details: if somebody's in your house then they're likely to be close enough for even somebody who isn't a TRUE WARRIOR to hit an assailant to kill them more or less instantly. Guns, particularly those with hollow-point bullets mentioned upthread, do truly horrible things to people, but providing your shot lands in the chest or head they do them quickly. Cleavers, not so much. It will take many, many slices of your mighty blade to kill somebody quickly, a single wound to the throat or head won't do it. You'll have to do it close enough to your attacker to feel their last breath on you, get their blood all over you- all those vivid descriptions of death in bad noir novels will be your reality until the post-traumatic stress abides, which will be a long, long time.
Now, you're probably saying: 'But Phex, you handsome devil, I would use the knife to scare people off, and the occasional game of catch- I would never kill somebody'. Well, if somebody does break into your place and if they're fucked up enough psychologically or chemically to call your bluff then it comes down to you or them. You'll pick 'you' I imagine, unless they're going to discover the cure for cancer or something (remember to check beforehand), then you're in a position where you'll probably have to kill someone.
Basically, I strongly suggest you get that knife out from under your bed and put it in your kitchen where it belongs. Buy a baseball bat- if you hit somebody around the head they should be rendered unconscious as opposed to dead and there's very little- to put it bluntly- splatter involved. If you're in a particularly bad neighborhood and in a country where it's legal you could even consider getting a gun, which has several practical and psychological advantages over a cleaver. |
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