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anyone ever read Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky"? Much the same question of any weapon was posed, to a group of people colonizing a planet. The one that best survived, carried only two knives - equivalent of ka-bars. The rationale was that with a huge gun, the pattern you fall into is "confident, cocky, lazy, dead", whereas with only a knife, you're alert, because you constantly fear for your life.
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Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
-- Robert Heinlein
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