They use the same animated attacks, and never allow any strategy or skill other than simply dodging the player's whole body away from the attack. Guns basically have a point where you're aiming from, and an angle leading to the gun tip which can touch every point on a sphere around the player.
Swords work differently.
Plus the outer sphere which the sword's tip touches. Offensive-defensive strategies need both of these spheres to work. The hand needs to move around in order to counter these attacks. Whereas the damage of a gun is done by the weapon itself, thru the press of a button. This is important because simply tapping or touching a object with a sword or club should do no damage.