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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5622988" data-attributes="member: 64209">My wife is a doctor and has worked in the ER, but she's not home at the moment. She has shared stories in which people have been hit with dozens of bullets and survived.   Looking at this with common sense, I think it's fairly obvious that certain parts of the body are more critical than others.  Yes, knives, bullets, and swords are all dangerous and deadly (as is a homemade prison shank). However, there's a degree of precision that is important in any attack. I have to be less precise with a handgrenade than a gun and even more precise with a knife if I want to attack to kill.  It's about impossible to cut someone's hand off (at the wrist likely, not through bone) with a knife swing or stab. It's still unlikely with a sword, but not impossible. A battle axe? Increasingly likely. (I like to cook, and I have to say, even cutting through a steak with a knife designed to do so can take some effort...and the steak isn't fighting back. A butcher's cleaver makes the job a lot easier.) My point is, the larger the weapon, the less necessary it is to use it for precision. Of course, precision still was important, and there is such a thing as too big. But even in the video where knights were downed and finished off with a dagger, the dagger was used as a precision instrument. They weren't downed by the dagger in the first place.</blockquote>