Katana VS Gun

I had this argument with another writer back when I was showing him my story and he kept suggesting that I make a character that used a katana and was a skilled swordsman but a Human.

I basically told him that it wouldn't work in the universe I had created because the enemies were demons and too strong for someone to take on with their hands. Even with a weapon, they'd get murdered.

Then today someone on Deviant Art posted a list of quotes they pulled out of a conversation about swords versus guns. The comments are really badly put together and most of them are people proclaiming how easily a modern soldier would be killed by a sword and one person even went on to say how a ninja could take down a tank...

There was even this comment that a katana could cut through seven fifty caliber rounds! Fifty caliber rounds will go through an engine. Not sure if anyone here has seen one, but a fifty caliber round is serious business.

This is yet another example of the over romanticization of swords and katanas, along with rampant fanboy/girlism. Its sad that people think this kind of logic applies in the real world. So what a katana can cut seven bullets in half? Even from a small arm such as a Beretta, you can empty a whole clip in seconds before the sword wielder can get to you.

There is a wide belief that sword beats gun.