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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2985245" data-attributes="member: 7883">It's not only gamers.  The war museum in Canada has a quote on the wall from a soldier in the Boer War.....it talks about the advent of guns, and the guy says something like "the new guns allowed a new recruit with a 12 cent revolver to kill a seasoned swordsman with twenty years experience"....that was 100 years ago.I'm sure getting whacked by a sword wouldn't be very pretty, but guns made it easier and cheaper to give soldiers the ability to kill each other.  Make that process easier, and maybe there's a risk of having people that are less disciplined than someone who's been practicing for years.  It's certainly made it easier for certain countries to develop armies of child soldiers..Personally, I'm not sure I even noticed Inara with the bow when I was watching the movie.  I would suspect that she used it due to comfort level.  Maybe she was a crack shot with a bow, whereas the recoil of a gun would make it too difficult to use, for someone as small as her.  Having never actually fired a gun myself, friends I know who have, have consistently mentioned that it's actually not so easy, due to the kickback etc.Banshee</blockquote>