Machete
Well-Known Member
You are assuming you have the mental reaction at close distances to do such things. Ask any combat veteran and they can tell you it's not just "I STABZ YOU NUB!!!". There's the chance your opponent will move different than expected or who knows what. That's why you want to greet something that excels in close combat (the zombie) at long range. True knives have their place but I wouldn't only carry just a knife if I could afford it. I'd also carry something like a crow-bar. It has a far longer reach than your average knife and I can swap on the fly from using it as a tool to using it as a weapon.
Knives aren't miracle items just because they don't require ammo despite what you are all trying to imply. You all represent good points but as I've mentioned before, there's a level of mental tension that I can assure none of you would be able to think so clearly in for the first time, the second time, or maybe even the third time. This isn't something that comes naturally either, it requires training and more importantly: it requires will and determination to help out the training. True, guns require training and maintenance but I can catch a Tango at a greater range and with less mental stress at sixty yards with a pistol than with a knife at arm's distance and less.
My final point: ammo would actually not be that hard to find in such a gun-influenced society. I know a man next door who has four rifles and keeps around three hundred rounds for each of them. Besides 'Joe McAverage' there would be countless gun stores (I know at least three in as many a mile-radius) across the US. Next to that you have law enforcement positions that would undoubtedly fall (nat all, some) and National Guard/military positions of the same nature so you would probably find times when you were practically tripping over ammo.
Knives aren't miracle items just because they don't require ammo despite what you are all trying to imply. You all represent good points but as I've mentioned before, there's a level of mental tension that I can assure none of you would be able to think so clearly in for the first time, the second time, or maybe even the third time. This isn't something that comes naturally either, it requires training and more importantly: it requires will and determination to help out the training. True, guns require training and maintenance but I can catch a Tango at a greater range and with less mental stress at sixty yards with a pistol than with a knife at arm's distance and less.
My final point: ammo would actually not be that hard to find in such a gun-influenced society. I know a man next door who has four rifles and keeps around three hundred rounds for each of them. Besides 'Joe McAverage' there would be countless gun stores (I know at least three in as many a mile-radius) across the US. Next to that you have law enforcement positions that would undoubtedly fall (nat all, some) and National Guard/military positions of the same nature so you would probably find times when you were practically tripping over ammo.
