If I remember correctly the book "on killing" discusses this very question--the short answer is that hand-to-hand combat is far more terrifying because it has a

If I remember correctly the book "on killing" discusses this very question--the short answer is that hand-to-hand combat is far more terrifying because it has an innate, animalistic psychological component. To see the face of someone who wants to kill you is far more traumatic than a metal tube from the sky. That tube does not hate you. That tube won't show up in your dreams.