(30 September 2013, 17:51)Midnitemo Wrote: I know there is a lot of talk about gun's but the ammunition wont last forever, so there use will eventually decline to very low levels....so edged weapons / trauma weapons / throwing weapons and bows will become the norm in the future , it would deffinately be of benefit to aquire and practice with some of these weapons now.
I think it was TL that made an awesome post about how easy it is to make gun powder. Turns out...very easy. Guns will be around for a VERY long time.
Yesterday I wrote a huge reply on this subject, but I guess it didn't send. Anyway, to summarise, I said there's a difference between lethal weapons and lethal force.
A baseball bat is lethal force, as is running someone over with your car. However, there is a difference between lethal force and lethal weapons. Many items that are used with lethal force would be considered lethal weapons, but not all lethal weapons use lethal force. The easiest example is a poisoned dart. It might not dispatch a person instantly, like a heavy axe blow to the back of the neck, but it will dispatch them with a single use. Lethal force, for me at least, is time critical. Lethal weapons can remove a person up to 48 hours later, internal bleeding or something like that.
As for the whole water pistol's with acid thing (which we've all heard many times) it must be a really crap acid to be able to sit in a £2.50 water pistol. I think it's likely to be really weak, and thus not worth the effort.
One of the most effective lethal weapons is fire. You can knock someone out and then set fire to them. Much less hands on that chopping off their head.
In regard to building my own, I'll just stick to ones readily available. A sharp stick or broom handle, can cause enough trauma to kill a person, as can a brick thrown at their head. For as long as people have existed, we've worked out ever more creative ways to kill one another. Punju traps, bows and arrows, poison, guns, nuclear bombs, etc. Once TSHTF, that's when people will get really creative.
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