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** It's been shown vampires love the hunt. Taking down a Slayer with machine gun fire is tacky. Plus, Slayer blood is yum-tastic.
*** That's a pretty poor justification, she'd be a lot easier to kill and drain dry after you shoot her in the gut, the real reason is Joss seems to hate guns for some reason.
**** Not so, look at ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''.
***** I've read frequently over the years that Whedon dislikes guns. He probably considered them a necessary evil with Firefly; you can't really have a shipful of space cowboys without having guns!
*** There's a rather amusic fanfic vignette by Dogbertcarroll which has a Vamp!Xander facing off vs. Buffy using a .45, and she tries to point out to him that he either wants to drain her or turn her, and the gun ruins both possibilities. Xander's reply is that people don't usually bleed to death through their kneecaps, but Vampire Buffy will heal them back just fine.
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** Also let's look at the facts here. Both Angel and Spike have been shown to burst into flames and stay alive long enough to get away. Clearly a flaming vampire doesn't die as quickly as a staked/beheaded one and in the seconds where a flaming vamp is alive it's still a threat to be dealt with. Plus multiple fire implements would cost money especially for refills whereas a pointy stick can be found in nature.
*** Being fair, that's Angel and Spike, who are two of the toughest vampires we've ever seen short of centuries-old freaks like the Master and Kakistos. Minion vamps who get touched by flame tend to go up like oil-soaked rags and almost instantly turn into ash. There's that scene in Angel season 3 where Wesley busts out the flamethrower on an entire squad of vampires and obliterates them all with just one blast.
*** In addition, according to the post-series continuation comics vampires of the Aurelius bloodline (i.e., the Master and all his descendants) are slightly different from other vampires. As in, while the first vampire and most subsequent vampires were created by an Old One mixing its blood with a human back during the Demon Age the Aurelius bloodline actually all descend from a ''different'' Old One. They are a closely related but still separate
** There's also the vampires that the students hit with fire arrows during Graduation. One hit, poof, gone.
== The Cross and Christianity ==
* Okay, so I've heard some people present the idea that the cross is a symbol for the sun and that's why it works on vampires (as an alternative to "the power of belief" which would imply ANY religious symbol and possibly any idealogical symbol held sacred by enough people could be used to deter/harm vampires; or that Christianity is the "right" religion which has it's own meta issues and in-verse problems such as Christianity being less than two thousand years old). Wouldn't it imply then that; a) any sort of cross would work - could you ward of vampires with [http://www.mukwonago.k12.wi.us/~weberja/swissflag.gif the Swiss Flag]{{Dead link}}, this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227115925/http://www.mp3playerguide.com/cross_shaped_mp3_player.jpg Cross-Shaped mp3 player] or a [http://www.lasyfashions.com/images/_products/spclothing/15589d.jpg cross strapped top]{{Dead link}}?: and b) that other sun symbols would work just the same - could vampires be detered by [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Circumpunct.png a circled dot, the astrological symbol for the sun and the sign for the Egyptian sun god Ra] or anything made of gold, which has been frequently associated with the sun in so many cultures/religions?
** I always thought that the cross and holy water and whatnot were made symbols of divinity *because* of their ability to repel vampires. How this explains why older religions don't have anti-vampire divine objects is beyond me.
*** Holy water doesn't grow on trees, so I'm not sure how that would work. In the end I think this is just Joss not caring. Folkloric vampires were hurt by crosses and holy water because they were holy symbols of God. Buffy vampires are hurt by them just because. On the other hand, while Whedon is an atheist, no definitive answer has to my knowledge been given within the Buffyverse, so maybe God did it.
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