Wow this guy is a complete idiot.

First off, yes, in closed quarters--in a crowd, in a classroom--a knife is as if not more effective than a gun. Blades can do severe damage.

Defending against a knife attack is trivial. I don't carry a knife because it's a liability: I will abandon the knife in a struggle and move to bare fists, and then I am fighting a guy with a knife. On the other hand, if a guy brings a knife at me, I'm more confident I'll take it from him than anything. It's a win-win scenario: I avoid an attacker with a knife, or I'm free to take his. Knives inflict a minimum damage--cuts, stabs, but not bruises and simple pain--and don't provide dexterity for locks and throws; they are less-optimal as a weapon than my fists.

If a bad guy pulls a gun at distance, you have to notice and react before it's leveled at you. That's not reliable. If you try to pull your gun in a close fist fight, your arm can be trapped (easily) and the gun can be liberated from your possession; likewise if some dude jumps you and tries to pull a gun after he has your attention--it's a liability. Guns are not useful for defense, unless you're like Spike and use it to block a katana from some awesome crazy ninja.

If a bad guy jumps you with a knife, pulling your gun out is too slow. Wipe yourself off, man; you're dead. If he has a baseball bat, same deal, but you might notice this sooner if he attacks from a further distance and gives you time to get it out... or not. It's trivial to defend against either of these with your hands.

Guns work great at a moderate distance. Three meters. If you can keep three meters and draw a firearm against a melee-armed man, you have control. At shorter distance, you have liability.

Weighted gloves have pelletized iron in them. They have the mass to absorb the impulse, and the flexibility to deadblow it. You could gel pad the gun, fire with the other hand, or use a low-recoil pistol with a modified grip to catch the recoil with wrist flex rather than buttressing against the wrist.

Also, you can wash your hands or wear gloves (which you dispose of) to avoid a residue test.

You sound like you want Gentoo.

Many people moved away from RHEL because RHEL is shit. Everyone who uses RHEL and CentOS uses extra repositories like EPEL and ElRepo to get shit that's already in Fedora, but stripped out of RHEL.

It's software. The proposal is to ban you from installing things, which doesn't help anything. What helps is a default setting for servers and a tuning setting for single- and multi-user desktops.

Saurbraten, based on Cube 2, based on Cube. Quake, but you can modify the level during play. It's from the 90s.

I have. Soldiers like to double as recruiters, and I unload on them when they try to drag me into their bullshit--especially the army folks, the cannon fodder we send out to die first, the most expendable and the most self-important. I also know infantrymen I went to high school with, who still act like we're in high school; except in high school I never punched the shit out of these people, so it was time to play catch-up and put them in their place. Apparently I'm harder than Iraq.

So much for "easy target".

Gee, I have a medical problem, and I like widget. I know you should use gadget to treat medical problem, but I want to use widget. Can you give me widget for this?

You're looking at PTSD. The Zen guys have a discount for veterans. Mind you, veterans are the most entitled, self-absorbed, over-worshiped segment of our society; but this is medical treatment for people with a medical condition. I don't mind being helpful, but I don't want to compromise the integrity of my social position on the topic of veterans by appearing concerned because they're specifically veterans.

What era do you live in? I've been using Ubuntu since inception and, since the second or third release, it's been better with hardware than Windows. I never really look at the HCL. This is distinctly different from Mandrake 7.2 trying to figure out if I need ALSA or OSS and then not getting either to actually play sound (and then sound suddenly stops working why?).

How do you think Windows became the de-facto home operating system?