I prefer to use my hands...

Both, just look at Dante on DMC.

I guess you are trying to ask if you prefer a gamer prefers "short range, melee combat" rather than "long range, shooting combat"?

I have never been one for FPS games (or TPS) so I'll say "sword". 

I second that, Rol.

Light Saber?

I personally prefer to use a controller when I play video games. Archaic, I know ...

If its first person the gun of course,third person can be gun or sword.

I'm gonna have to go with a lightsaber AND a deagle.

I prefer to be immersed. If the gun game is played with a gun or Wiimote to aim then I would take that over button mashing. That is only cause no sword games have really taken advantage of swinging yet. However I dream of the day I can swing a lightsaber in first person. Hey anyone else out there think it would be cool to have a lightsaber training mode like when Luke trained with the bot in Star Wars A New Hope? A little android firing blasts and you and you have to deflect it real quick. They could include clues to where he is going to shoot with sound or his blaster arm pointing in a different position right before he shoots.

Ugh, I so wish there was another choice. How can anyone ever claim that video games are more than a teenage male fantasyland when we get polls like "Swords or guns?" We should also ask: "Boobies or cars?"