The most dangerous are little flicks/slashes with a knife, not large movements because they are harder to block. ... In all of these scenarios of attacks, you really should come out of it with minor cuts to your arms at the most.
The little flicks and slashes are in fact the most dangersous. But unless the guy you're fighting is using a butter knife there is no such thing as a minor cut to the arm in this situation.
... And a bullet doesn't just make a clean hole, or cut like a knife. It smashes things. Permanent damage in some cases.
Actually the nice clean holes a knife makes take a great deal longer to close than the smashing damage from a bullet. Lots more blood leaking out all at once. Any idea how fast you can bleed out from a cleanly severed radial artery? I'd have to look it up to get an actual time estimate but it's pretty fast, as in seconds.
Incidentally if the whole point of this little side jaunt is to prove that knives are more efficient than guns when committing violent crime, no one argues it. In a fight I'd take a pistol over a knife in a second. What this does demonstrate, however, is that guns are certainly not a prerequisite for fast, brutal, and successful violent crime.
Newsflash: Communist uprisings really aren't a threat anymore. Seriously. As Jam said, you'd rather carry a gun, the very nature of which promotes violence, because you're afraid someone will attack you?
The very nature of a gun does not promote violence anymore than a hammer promotes people being hammered to death. If things that are capable of dealing death promoted violence then hospitals would have to ban syringes along with just about all their other tools. And cars would be long gone. If anything guns promote peaceful rather than violent discussions of our differences. As Robert Heinlein once said, "An armed society is a polite society."
Or that there will be a communist uprising? Or that your conspiracy theories come true and the government tries to become a dictatorship? Well, I'm sorry folks, that may be a real threat in the US of A, but it sure isn't here, so I'll take my chances.
SE has already responded perfectly to this bit of naivety so I'll let it go.
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