My choice to use a ranged weapon is based largely in the desire to limit the liability I am in some situations and to give me an option for defending myself or my teammates or my students that doesn't involve me getting my hands on someone. A gun sure as hell wouldn't have helped get Yana out of that mess quite so well, but I really don't like doing things like that. I'd be happy to take up a crossbow or something instead, but they don't transport quite so well. I've had permission to train using a handgun for quite some time now, from the Professor himself. There's no evil inherent in conventional weaponry like that and more than there's evil in any of us for having the capacity to kill.

God. I am tired of this argument and I am tired of trying to smooth things out between people. I quit. When the kids who have had it rough implode into their own independant little militia that trusts no one, especially people who throw idealistic, unrealistic, ethical snakeoil in their faces when they're trying to protect their own lives, or so they think, I'll be busy somewhere else, possibly embroidering a straight-jacket for myself.