I would hate to be on a bus with guns going off. 'Course I feel that way about planes, too, or any other small enclosed space.
You may have something there, Mellowiscious. There is probably something quite Zen-like about a nice quite knife, the only sounds to disturb ones special space being the rude gurglings of the fellow who is being beheaded.
But, I am not sure your, "just say no" to a progression from stone to nuclear bomb analogy would really deter the one wielding the stone from -- well -- leaving his stone at home and not crushing someone's skull. I do, however think that the beheadee would not have minded too much if someone on the bus at put two slugs into the goblin's chest, or at least used the crowbar to put him into a relaxed state until the clean-up crew eventually arrived.
I wonder how many of the people on the bus would have intervined if the goblin was raping a woman -- or would they again have scurried to the door and awaited the gendarmes? And would you be less offended by the sound of gunfire on the bus?
Yours,
Issodhos
