then you find out where you buy the reinforced pillows and follow suit, naturally <or alternatively, create another sith when someone kills the guy with the pillow with a sniper rifle purely so that HE can have the pillow. Of course, by kiling someone, he is happier with the gun, NOT the pillow!> Gargh! So confusing!
regarding balance in the force, I always thought of it in this context;
Each Sith has a gun <any type of gun, it really is immaterial>. Every Jedi has a pillow. A single sith can kill any jedi he want to just like that. But there is balance becuase there are so many Jedi<pillows>. Enough pillows can destroy a sith, even if he has a gun. Or at the very least, can pose enough of a threat that action can be abstained. Thus, there can be balance in the force, even if there are like 3 sith and 592 jedi. Savvy? Well....I'm sure that's the basic idea that George Lucas had in mind......