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In the last episode of the first season a lot of special forces with machine
guns attacked the Aogiri Tree. My question is, given the regenerative
abilities Ghouls have, can they be killed with machine guns? If they can't be
killed, what's the point of using them? And if they can be killed, what's the
point of using Quinques if you can kill Ghouls with long range weapons?


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Can Ghouls be killed with bullets?


No, I'm pretty sure bullets can't hurt them.

Like, when Kaneki was considering that he was a ghoul, he tested it by
stabbing himself in the stomach with a knife. Needless to say, it didn't work.
So, ghouls cant be hurt by knives. Bullets are basically just tiny, blunt,
round knives traveling at 'superfast' levels of speed (or, whatever, work with
me here).

Quinques are the only weapons used against ghouls - considering that firearms
were introduced to Japan in the 13th century from China, and quinques were
invented like, waaaay after that, it stands to reason that guns don't work, or
else no one would have bothered inventing the quinque.

"But, Kat, machine guns are different to normal guns!" I hear you, dude. But
the logic moves up a step from, 'if a knife won't kill it, a tiny, blunt,
round knife travelling at 'superfast' levels of speed won't kill it either'
over to, 'if a tiny, blunt, round knife travelling at 'superfast' levels of
speed won't kill it, then an absolute load of tiny blunt round knives shot in
a rapid-fire hailstorm of death probably won't kill it either'. What it will
do, though, is slow it down!

It's like someone firing a paintball gun at you, except the paintball gun is a
machine gun. It's not deadly, but it's going to give you some bruises,
distract you, slow you down and _annoy you_!

So, **tl;dr** :  
Bullets can't kill ghouls or badly injure them, but they can give them the
ghoul equivalent of a paintball bruise, distract them, and slow them down.


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Regular bullets can't pierce most Kagune, but there are special bullets used
by CCG which are more effective.
[Q_Bullets](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Q_bullets), or Bullets coated
with a thin layer of quinque steel, are enhanced bullets which do deal damage
to Ghouls.

That being said, stronger ghouls are generally resistant to even those, as we
see the top tier S and SS rated ghouls tank the bullets. Weaker ghouls are at
risk of death as much as a bullet to a regular human is if they don't have
good regenerative powers. You can see that best in chapter 60, which in the
anime is 10-11 minutes into episode 11 of season 1, as the last few pages have
Juuzo use Marudes bike to jump into a ghoul infested building, and he uses a
machine gun to punch dozens of holes into a couple of ghouls heads, even
showing them off in the manga.


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