Talk:Gems/@comment-28470859-20160812000518/@comment-30187309-20161010000452

Have you ever stabbed a person before?

Please don't answer that. First you have to stab somewhere that is actually likely to result in death. This is very hard to do with your average kitchen knife, and most people don't really own proper people-stabbin' knives. Unless you know your shit about anatomy, you're probably more likely to miss a vital organ in any given stabbing attempt than not, and even then, that's in the cases where it doesn't glance off the ribcage or sternum or whatever.

Of course, none of this applies to gems since they don't have vital organs. Or any organs. But based of what we've seen in the show, they're exceptionally tough.

So basically, we have a species which has no reliable tagrgets to hit, lots of defences, and the only way to really get one would be to deal enough damage overall to overpower said defences.