You don't take a knife to a gun fight. At least, you don't only take a knife.

We saw a lightsaber cut through a blast door once, and it took a grip of time, so it's not like that was it's intended purpose.

I could cite many in-cannon examples and real world examples that would discredit some of your arguments, namely, the Jedi weren't monks. They weren't peaceful or neutral. They were a highly political order of warriors. Wise, sure, they tried to fight for good and all that, yeah. but they frequently sought out combat…

The differences between the prequels and original trilogy are numerous, and I consider the Clone Wars to be more in line with the prequels. The Jedi were a mysterious and limited order of protectors in the originals. The idea of the wandering monk came from the only other two Jedi we saw in them, Obi Wan and Yoda, who…

I get that the the lightsaber is a symbol to the Jedi like the katana is the symbol/soul of the Samurai, but they're hardly as stringent with the 'no guns' policy as the Samurai were. Further more, if the Jedi can use the Force to influence their melee skills, they can use the Force to improve their aim and accuracy…

I think there are more deaths by firearms per year than by knifes/swords/etc. Either way, my point was more in line with 'why not carry both'. The Jedi seem to get into large scale conflicts frequently, and if the Force and help them wield a lightsaber to deflect this and that, it can surely help their aim with a…

soldiers today also carry.. you know, guns. They don't just carry knives because their enemies aren't either.

No one brings just a knife to a war, not even Leon the professional.

semantics shmemantics

Okay, but how about I throw your words back at you, it takes control and discipline to be a sharp shooter too, Boba Fett was no slouch and he used blasters. I get that the lightsaber is a symbol of the Jedi like a katana is the soul of the Samurai, but I don't get why they wouldn't also use blasters. There's no reason…

Imagine what the Force could do with your aim with a blaster though. Really this is more of a 'why not use both' argument. The Samurai didn't use guns because that was their custom, their sword was their soul and guns were dishonorable. The Jedi hardly have this code, for one, it's never explicitly been stated as…

Yeah but the starship troopers used their guns or explosives the entire film basically and only used knifes when in very close combat. Point is, they used all forms of combat, not just one like the Jedi. You can aruge that the Jedi also used force pushes and the like, but really it was all or nothing on the lightsaber.

Well, we never saw a blaster jam or run out of energy, so I didn't factor that assumption into it. Just the same, the only time we saw a lightsaber malfunction was when Luke was facing off against Vadar, and I think the only reason it was flickering was because Luke was conflicted and couldn't concentrate enough to…

that's a shoddy argument because any idiot can pick up a sword/lightsaber and not be effective if they don't know how to use it too. Real world example, the samurai being over run by an army of people wielding guns. Boba Fett had no problem wielding a blaster, clumsy or random in the wrong hands, but in the hands of a…

Or a bomb, or a nuke, or a bunch of ATATs or more than one Sith lord/apprentice at a time. Really, when you're fighting a couple of vagrants with glorified swords it's not too much work to overwhelm them by sheer numbers alone. Which is what the empire did in episode 2.

I need a movie that doesn't show countless Jedi being slaughtered by blasters, basically bringing about their near extinction because their defensive weapon couldn't withstand a barrage of an offensive weapon. But yeah, I see your point.

yeah but didn't we see countless jedi being slaughtered by blasters in episode 2? Maybe one Jedi against bulls eye mcgee has the upper hand, but against a swarm of droids/clones/etc you're at a disadvantage, you can only deflect so many before a few get in. Maybe extra force sensitive folk like Anakin can just…

they can cut through bulkheads, sure, that's a nice feature, but not quickly by any means. And no matter how you slice it, unless your opponent is like 5 feet from you, and gun will be just as effective, in fact, the closer they get the easier you target will be to hit. Not to mention their guns don't seem to reload…

eh, I don't buy that a gun is easier to steal from an opponent than a sword. The shields you're talking about didn't come into the game until the prequels, which was just a can of worms Lucas opened cause, why don't they still use them in the originals then. If they had the technology to block projectiles from guns…

That's what I mean though, you don't bring a sword to a gun fight.