Wonder if it might just be the romanticism of it. Stories are more gripping when your hero is forced to use their backup weapon to save the day. Whatever supports a more intimate one-on-one fight to the death.
Even within the American gun-worshipping mythos, the revolver is the iconic weapon of cowboys and lawmen of the wild west, though handguns were much less common than rifles and shotguns of the day. But a showdown in the center of town isn’t as exciting with a rifle, you gotta have the revolver and its meager six shots to raise the tension.
Probably romanticism. I remember Don Quixote calling artillery an evil of their contemporary warfare. A bit understandable because the invention of artillery basically led to more indiscriminate destruction… And I reckon that because you can basically target people from afar, you can just hit people not actively engaged in battle and take them by surprise.
Romanticism of swords, in particular, also goes back an extremely long time. They’re harder to make and more expensive to maintain than other weapons so they’ve been associated with the nobility, the only people that could consistently afford them, for thousands of years.
Wonder if it might just be the romanticism of it. Stories are more gripping when your hero is forced to use their backup weapon to save the day. Whatever supports a more intimate one-on-one fight to the death.
Even within the American gun-worshipping mythos, the revolver is the iconic weapon of cowboys and lawmen of the wild west, though handguns were much less common than rifles and shotguns of the day. But a showdown in the center of town isn’t as exciting with a rifle, you gotta have the revolver and its meager six shots to raise the tension.
Probably romanticism. I remember Don Quixote calling artillery an evil of their contemporary warfare. A bit understandable because the invention of artillery basically led to more indiscriminate destruction… And I reckon that because you can basically target people from afar, you can just hit people not actively engaged in battle and take them by surprise.
Romanticism of swords, in particular, also goes back an extremely long time. They’re harder to make and more expensive to maintain than other weapons so they’ve been associated with the nobility, the only people that could consistently afford them, for thousands of years.
Murrican gun-worshippers absolutely mald on the subject of FPVs, calling this unethical weapon of cowards.