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The thing about self-defense is "an appropriate amount of force used to neutralize the threat."
Firearms make it easy to kill someone with one or two shots, if not leave them a drooling vegetable for life. They're efficient and any moron can "activate" them. An obese midget can kill someone with a gun as well as a military body builder.
Swords? You gotta try to kill somebody. They're neutralized long before they're dead unless you run them through. Severe wounds versus death.
Generally speaking, a gun can be assumed capable of killing someone instantly while a sword cannot. That's why we use guns instead of swords today. We call that "progess."
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