It was like that in our world once, actually. Knives have a certain upper hand, but all in all, a gun is the way to go. The Englishman pillaged the New World hundreds of years before I was even a thought in anyone's mind. They came with guns against the people who bore only knives and bows. Sure, both cause casualty, but with a gun, a weak man can topple the strongest chief of a village.

This thing? I could take out a crowd of people if I so wished it.