I like the classic blood-bath* style kill messages than using images of guns. Particularly when you use a resolution so small that you can't distinguish the difference between a rifle and a shotgun. It's more fun if you have fun(tm) MODs rather than plain images In my opinion.
*[][][][]BB server in 1.1 had multiple messages of death such as "was decapitated by ..." or "'s heart was <some advance word for eating, forgot> by ... It waz tasty." or ".... made ...'s front fall off" etc.
I wonder if anyone knows how to get multiple MODs, because i'd like to implement it to my 1.1 qvm