Comments by "Andre Gon" (@andregon4366) on "The Shocking History of Assassins" video.

The Ninjas did it better. By concealing their identity they could kill more than a couple people before dying.
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@sancturillore What I meant was that Ninjas weren't a single misdion agents. Getting years of training to serve a single mission isn't that efficient.
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@datbanan2717 Usually the more successful Ninja the less we know about them. I mean, stealth was one of their qualities right? Also, you'd be surprised with what people could get away with in a crowded place. If you stabbed someone dropped the knife and blended in the crowd you'd rarely be caught. It's not that there were forensics back then. Same effect without losing men. That was a tactic rebels employed against the Romans in the Middle East. But hey, different times, different cultures, different places. Each one does what's the most effective to them. Although the Saladin part was actually pretty clever. No one got assassinated nor killed and the conflict got solved by the next day.
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@rileysmith9929 And doing the mission without losing the assassin is even more efficient.
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@rustomkanishka That's not to say they didn't do one or two assassination missions. Oda Nobunaga was almost assassinated by a Ninja when he was sleeping. The plan consisted in using a nail tied to a rope and having poison run down through the rope until it dripped in his mouth.
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@sloth8866 It's alright. Have a nice day 👍
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@peacepoet1947 Ok then.
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@sloth8866 By "did it better" I meant they lived so they could be assigned to the next job. With lack of better words, single use "tools" aren't as efficient as those that can be used multiple times before having to be replaced.
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@sloth8866 They also did assassination. Nobunaga was almost killed by a ninja at one point. Sure, they weren't strictly assassins, but that doesn't mean they couldn't do it.
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