Is it harder to use a knife or a gun?
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Is it harder to use a knife or a gun?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “what is a gun knife“
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You are missing a very important bunch of adjectives here.
Like, “effectively”
That presuppose an effect you wish to achieve.
To cause harm?
Without a doubt, a knife. A five year old with ten minutes instruction can use a knife.
To kill someone without being harmed yourself? Definitely a firearm, but now we are talking around 100 hours practice, to be any good at it, and the potential for accidents with fatal consequences goes up dramatically
So not for a five year old.
But now, which is better at its job?
Once you have done your hundred or so hours with a firearm, there is not much to choose between the best in class and the merely adequate.
That’s not the case with a blade (or a stick)
The complexity of using a close hand held weapon involve two moving human bodies at the least.
ANY ranged weapon just involves one.
Acquire target, hit target, hit it again if it moves. Rinse repeat.
If it’s close enough to hit you (or grab you) then your complexity factor goes up alarmingly
So the learning curve is totally different.
I’m not a fan of knives at all. Happy to use them, not unduly worried if someone wants to use one to dissect me, but you won’t find me carrying one except as a tool.
But if someone is causing mayhem near me, tools have many purposes.
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A gun is impersonal. You pull the trigger and it’s over.
With a knife its nasty sweaty bloody work. You rarely make a kill with one stab or slash.
This will also depend on tour blade type as well for damage
You will need to know the targets to hit and how to retrieve and expect lots of blood unless you come up behind them silently.
If he has a knife as well you can expect to also be cut or stabbed.
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Try cutting a slice of bread with a gun. A knife will be much easier. Try shooting a deer at a hundred paces with a knife. A gun will be much easier. Try writing a letter. Neither knife nor gun will be much use.
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When eating steak I’ve always found a knife more easy to use than a gun.
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It’s harder, to use either well. Anybody can use a gun or a knife, but success depends largely upon skill, experience, and your knowledge of the implement.
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A knife.
Anyone can slash or stab away with a knife and kill someone. But most people attacked with a knife survive.
To be able to use a knife effectively in melee combat takes about a year of daily training. At the end of that year you will no longer be flailing about with a blade but targeting specific body parts. Someone trained with a knife will quickly disable their opponent with cuts then inflict fatal stabs.
Most of the “knife fights” seen are between untrained people. That’s why you see people with over fifty stab wounds and still able to walk(Notably one leader of a prison gang on the outs with his gang). Hank Reinhardt’s “Book of knives” has several urban knife fights described.
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Marc Macyoung has written extensivly about the realities of fighting with a knife.
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As far as using a firearm goes. I know people who in an afternoon train first time shooters well enough that they can pass their State police firearms test. Doesn’t that feel good knowing that the test for a Law Enforcement officer to carry and use a firearm can be passed in an afternoon? For the British SAS their Initial pistol training is only two weeks long and used 2,500 rounds of live ammunition. That is not a lot of ammunition, that being said much of their initial training is how to properly handle a firearm. When they pass selection and get fully trained they will end up shooting until their hands bleed.
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Well, to paraphrase Sgt. Ed Lane of SRU Team One, “a knife, unlike a gun, never jams or runs out of ammunition and doesn’t require much training in order to do damage!”
So I guess it all comes down to the training
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Define “use.” Any idiot can swing a knife without getting hit in the face by the recoil.
However, to actually wield, knives are a hundred times harder than guns. A pistol can simply be pointed and shot, and provided the user has knowledge of gun safety and practice with recoil, they will be fine.
Knife combat, however, is a brutal blend of different martial arts and techniques that takes years of constant practice to be able to do. Being able to reliably disarm and dispatch an assailant without getting cut is very, very hard.
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Harder to use a knife. Ever tried to hunt for food with a knife? Well maybe mushrooms
Want to up the skill level? Try archery
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It depends, if its to cut cheese its easy and if its to shoot targets its easy. The same could not be said to using them on people. Even in self defense it would not be an easy choice to make. A range of thoughts will go through your mind, mainly “Am I going to end up in jail for protecting myself?”
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A knife is harder to use by far.
With a gun all you have to do is point and squeeze the trigger.
With a knife you actually have to make contact. If you think that’s easy try some boxing — unless you have lots of experience in fighting you will quickly change your mind about it being easy and that’s before you add the inconvenience of an uncooperative victim.
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