Perhaps if combat were guaranteed, but I think that walking around with a gun on the streets (especially in England) is hazardous. Knives are much more easily hidden.

yeah, for just walking around, a knife would be better.

Indeed. People would be unlikely to notice a well-hidden small throwing knife even if they searched you.

the only downfall is that you have one chance with it :(

Wow, this is an old thread

That's why you have one in each sleeve.

two throwing knives wouldnt knock someone down, I dont think, it would just piss them off alot, and give them pain for a while.

Shurikenjutsu is cool, but the damage is quite superficial. A bullet can kill you, but I've never heard of a throwing knife being able to kill someone. Well, unless you threw a big honkin' bowie knife.

But, what Kaimetsu said was accurate. The average time necessary to take a gun out of a holster is much longer than the amount of time necessary to grab a knife- depending upon where you keep them. I've had a few friends who were into knives (I never was myself), and they liked to keep them on the shins. You could see that it would take a while to fetch a knife down there. But, with a nice strap around the forearm holding some shuriken darts, you could throw a dart before a policeman could could budge his 9mm. Still, if you threw it at the policeman, there's no way you'd be alive in the end. A dart can't kill him.

A sword, on the other hand... I read a weapons study once, done by a fellow who was both a practicing student of iaido and a former member of some military branch... can't remember now, but, anyway: he timed his draw for several types of guns in holsters and a sword, and, surprisingly, the sword was number one in all cases. The thing is, of course, the sword only had that time within a range of 6 feet.

But, if you hit someone with a fast iaido draw, it's sure to kill them. If you think about it, the faster a sword draw is, the more effective it is, while the faster a gun draw and shot is, the less effective it is. And, a bullet wound is comparatively insignificant to a strong cut.

Finally, a sword can stab, and sometimes cut, through a bulletproof vest. But, at 6 feet, you're average bullet can also. :p

though guns are less accurate, you have a bigger margin for error. You can throw a dagger once, while a gun can unload anywhere from 6 to 18 shots from a pistol.

Get one of those laser-pointer guns.

Didnt your mother tell you weapons are dangerous?

after she shot me, she did :9

Asian swords

If you were really good with the throwing knife, you could get him in the throat or the eye. He's not gonna do much after that.

Yeah... maybe. I guess you could kill someone if you hit them in the throat. Overall, a handknife is much more reliable than a throwing knife, though. In fact, nothing is better for piercing the most common modern armour- bulletproof vests.