What causes more fear, a gun or a knife? And when I mean knife, I mean a real knife not a folding knife.
What causes more fear, a gun or a knife? And when I mean knife, I mean a real knife not a folding knife.
What causes more fear, a gun or a knife? And when I mean knife, I mean a real knife not a folding knife.
You can more easily run from a guy with a knife
Psychologically a knife because primitive evolutionary knowledge from ye olde monkee days using tools with sharp objects is in built into people.
A knife because whoever is holding it is willing to stab/slash me to death while a gun is just a pull of the trigger, even monkeys can do that.
>pretending like the end of a gun barrel isn't legitimately terrifying
You're more likely to miss if you suck at shooting.
>Probably the knife, an animal has no idea what a gun
That's a lie.
Proof?
the knife, an animal has no idea what a gun
>That's a lie.
Where do animals see guns in nature? Probably right before they get killed, if ever. There's just no way most animals would have any idea what a gun is capable of, it's a strange human contraption of unknown function like most of our other devices. Do animals fear smart phones or shoes? There's no primal reaction to seeing a weird object like a gun, only after carefully seeing the gun fire and the consequences of it would they learn that it's something to be rightfully feared. It stands to reason that animals, even humans that know what a gun is, would be more fearful of the knife because it taps into a primal fear of predatory creatures.
I often check to see if my EDC is loaded by looking down the barrel of the gun and I don't feel any fear from that
Why not both?
That's a dagger.
Daggers are a subset of knives and I will never understand this recent obsession with separating the two. Frankly I doubt it's driven by anything particularly academic.
Black person, they've been legally distinct categories in nearly every western country for 100 years.
Legal definitions are ass, not least because they're written largely by people with no real subject knowledge and vary wildly from place to place. Moreover the weapon in question has a single edge which would make it not a dagger by many legal definitions so what point did you even think you were making?
I checked a few dictionaries and most of them define a dagger as a knife used for stabbing people. Though one describes it as "like a knife" and another as "swordlike".
It is in fact interesting that some define it as "double-edged and pointy" even though most people will generally be content with "pointy and meant to stab people". Stilettoes and the likes are also generally considered daggers, even though they do not fit the definition of knife. We could content ourselves that most daggers are knives and some daggers are not.
>We could content ourselves that most daggers are knives and some daggers are not.
No. All daggers are knives but not all knives are daggers.
Is the stiletto a dagger? Most people will say yes (used in the same way as most daggers). Is it a knife? Most will say no (no edge, cannot cut). Hence my point: not all daggers are also knives.
>Most will say no
Wrongarooney. Most people will see that shape and assume it's a standard double edged blade like that dude earlier ITT did with that single edged rondel. That aside, most people are stupid and I don't care what they think, they can be wrong all they like.
I looked up dictionaries about "knife" and they all said something about cutting. A square stiletto CANNOT cut, therefore it is not a knife. Even if you could, from a picture, believe that it can cut.
>I looked up dictionaries about "knife" and they all said something about cutting.
I don't particularly care but if you're going to be ate up with definitions from whatever source then
>Google "define knife"
>1st result
>knife
>/nīf/
>an instrument composed of a blade fixed into a handle, used for cutting or as a weapon.
Nobody's using that stiletto as a needle or an awl. It's a weapon. Specifically a knife under this definition. Moreover here's what I think pretty much anyone would call a dagger. This is a dagger under many legal definitions. However it's a utilitarian tool. These words are not nearly as specific as people have recently tried to make them.
It's a pretty damn obvious case of internet armchair specialist syndrome, aka Mount Dunning-Kruger.
Despite everyone knowing what a gun is, a sharp bit of metal is a more obviously dangerous thing to our ape brains, so a knife will probably cause a more intense reaction at first
Both. Being held at bayonet point is probably scarier than either alone
t. have not actually been held at bayonet point
Knife is scarier if touching you. Otherwise gun is scarier
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Obviously a gun.
Probably the knife, an animal has no idea what a gun is but a knife resembles talons/claws/fangs and is probably more instinctually a threat. Though you should consider that the knife allows for slow, controlled bleeding and pain, while the gun obviously makes a very loud and scary sound. Optimally you would mix them both up along with your other implements to keep the subject on their toes and prime for extraction.
I think axes cause the most primal fear.
Both if you're not a moron.
a nutella man pulling a knife on you at the ATM is more likely to dice you up than some jit with a gun. I'd rather be shot than stabbed with some crack feind's aids blade
wrong knife for intimidation.
Bollocks
dying to being stabbed by bollocks would demoralise anyone. admit it
I need me a bollock dagger with a very well-carved wiener scabbard
you need the handle properly carved into the shape of a wiener so that you can shove the blade all the way in and leave a dick hanging out.
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Knives because 200,000 years of human toolmaking has inculcated in you the primal fear of a man charging at you with something sharp.
Rondels and Misericordes scare the shit out of me, for sure.
A knife. It's weird because the gun is obviously more dangerous but we've only had guns for about 500 years while knives have been around long enough for Natural Selection to kick in.
There's anecdotes of men being threatened by guns and holding out but folding once a knife was pointed at them.
Global /k/ rules 1-3
The answer is always gun.
Frick off newbie
>Confirmed no-knife
>no-knife
Everything else being equal, it should be the gun. But it also depends on the guy who holds it, the situation, etc. For example in places like britbongistan, a gun means high class criminal, probably more composed and calmly acting, not likely to just kill you unless you got on his bad side. While a knife more likely means gangbanger/crazy person/etc. who are more likely to kill random people.
I once hear that people who are being mugged/raped are more likely to scream for help if their attacker has a gun than a knife. I was told this was, because people are more afraid of the knife. Now that I think about it, it might have something to with guns being loud and that there's going to a lot of noise either way.
>source: my butthole
https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/fbi-knives-are-five-times-deadlier-than-guns/368276
Just finally got my liscense to own this bad boy.
Only took 4 months
Bin that, right now!
Id rather be shot to death than stabbed. I’ve been shot and I have been stabbed. People have lived from a few gunshots even if they hit something critical like the liver. People often don’t just get stabbed once. Your hands and arms will be cut trying to instinctually stop the knife. Lastly for someone to hit you in the liver while your run away multiple times with a hun will be a bit more trickery especially to some drugged up clown. But anyone can hold you down and stab you until you stop moving (you are still alive but unable to do anything)
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You joke, but in many ways knife laws are stricter than gun laws. Its almost impossible to carry a dagger or any large blade legally in many places, while ironically its much easier to get and carry a pistol.
In my state, the only simple weapon I can think of with weird restrictions is blackjacks and saps. Banned from carry, while any knife or handgun concealed is okay.
Gun ofc.
Remember riots when colored crowd jumped and stomped store owner who tried to defend shop with the sword?
And remember Kyle R. How rats scattered away after shots?
Solid point.
Show me a real knife and not one thats been constructed out of five parts.
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Definitely a gun.
Gun.
It causes more fear because a gun is a weapon you see and hear, where a knife is one where you just feel and maybe see.
Knife
A knife is more personal
Depends on the skin color of the wielder.
Black with gun = threat
Black with knife = onions won’t do shit
White with gun = onions won’t do shit
White with knife = schitzo will skin you
>Filtered by the twitter word
Your opinion doesn't matter.
knife for me. I keep mine super sharp. I cut through my finger once and didnt notice it.
Knives are scary up close, guns are scary when they're pointed at you at most ranges.