A world without guns

[mynameisearlandilikenuts]

Military weaponry is constantly becoming more and more biological. Soon enough, guns will be absolete. Remember the Anthrax scare? where people were putting anthrax in mail and sending them everywhere?

 

[JVT]

Nothing would change in a world without guns. A world without weapons would change the planet a large amount, although there would still not be peace and I do not believe that it is possible to have a world without any sort of weapon.

 

[Big-cow]

This is a hard one, but i clicked 'No' the world would not be better without guns. But then again it could be, most deaths are caused due a gun, and without guns police could use tazzers to suduce criminals.

But nah in the end the world wouldn't be better without guns.

 

[D-Shadow]

No difference if the world had no guns obviously because before guns people used swords,spears,arrows,knives basically anything that was sharp was a weapon but without weapons would make life hard for butchers,woodsmen etc because weapons are only bad when used wrong because most things can be used as a weapon in some way : )

 

[dotdoubledot]

Get rid of all guns, from now on we use staplers!

 

[Nathan III]

A world without guns would make no difference. Guns aren't the reason for death, the assholes who use them are. A world without idiots with weapons would make a difference.

 

This is such a stupid ideal.

We've had a world without guns.

Most of human history has been without guns. It certainly wasn't any better than today.

 

[Sindrefyrn]

The idea behind this is good; less war and bloodsheds.
Anyhow, it would be completely impossible to implement. And there have always been weapons. Without guns there would probably just come another weapon.

 

The idea behind this is good; less war and bloodsheds.
Anyhow, it would be completely impossible to implement. And there have always been weapons. Without guns there would probably just come another weapon.

What do you mean probably? Definitely. Look at Africa; where they can't afford guns they just lop each other's limbs off with machetes.

It's a ridiculous and self-defeating waste of energy to lobby against guns. Gun violence is a symptom not a cause; Banning one drug just increases the potency and use of others.

The cause is simply a lack of morality. We live in a sick society. The sickness is born of illusion. Death and suffering and poverty and war and misery are the prices you pay for your illusions. Your illusions are not free.

While you still believe in god there will still be religious wars.
While you still believe in the state there will still be international wars, nuclear bombs, bioweapons, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
While you still believe in socialized health care there will still be health care rationing.
While you still believe in public education there will still be 25 yearolds who don't know where their own country is on a map.

Your ideological beliefs fuel the institutions which facilitate these atrocities.

The sequence of causality is: You believe, therefore it happens. Not: It happens, therefore you believe. Wars, socialism, religion all take energy, money, resources, human labour, intelligence. Shut off the valve. Stop believing in and supporting these institutions, and you will find they have no substance at all; The ghost in the machine was the ghost in your head all along.

 

[dam prayer noobs]

Nah, people would be cutting each other with knifes and bashing skulls with baseball bats, which would make the world even more brutal and bloody.

 

[Xombi]

Now, are you saying that gun had never existed or that it was illegal to own them?

 

[Elvy666]

Even without guns there would be something to replace it, there are always weapons, if i didn't have a gun to harm someone and wanted to harm them, and was dedicated to doing it, i would find another weapon to take it's place.

 

[zoom pker]

There are people who will always find a way to make some sort of wepon of mass destruction or create some way to destroy something or someone.

 

[zoom pker]

What do you mean probably? Definitely. Look at Africa; where they can't afford guns they just lop each other's limbs off with machetes.

It's a ridiculous and self-defeating waste of energy to lobby against guns. Gun violence is a symptom not a cause; Banning one drug just increases the potency and use of others.

The cause is simply a lack of morality. We live in a sick society. The sickness is born of illusion. Death and suffering and poverty and war and misery are the prices you pay for your illusions. Your illusions are not free.

While you still believe in god there will still be religious wars.
While you still believe in the state there will still be international wars, nuclear bombs, bioweapons, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
While you still believe in socialized health care there will still be health care rationing.
While you still believe in public education there will still be 25 yearolds who don't know where their own country is on a map.

Your ideological beliefs fuel the institutions which facilitate these atrocities.

The sequence of causality is: You believe, therefore it happens. Not: It happens, therefore you believe. Wars, socialism, religion all take energy, money, resources, human labour, intelligence. Shut off the valve. Stop believing in and supporting these institutions, and you will find they have no substance at all; The ghost in the machine was the ghost in your head all along.

I am going to save quote this because this is a true act of intelligence, and it unveils the source of the question and answers many more very well said.

 

[DestroyDestroyDestroy]

If there was no guns in this world, then people would use sharp objects and blunt objects. So yes, this world needs guns.

 

[Elvy666]

Wow, I'm surprised 50% of people voted "No" as an answer...

It is true that "guns don't kill people, people kill people" but most of killing involve gun in it...

If someone wants to kill somebody they will do it regardless if they have a gun or not, of course because guns are available to us that would be the choice of weapon for killing someone, but that doesn't mean people wouldn't kill someone if they didn't have a gun.

I don't see why you say you're surprised that 50% of the people voted no, please explain to me how the world would be better without guns.

 

[´×V鮃¡ñé×´]

No,as Finn said,you can make other deadly stuff,out of everything.

 

[Milk12]

If your considering guns as a weapon then it wouldn't make a difference. A rock could be a weapon.

 

[Necromancer24]

Guns are needed. But not for the criminals. Just for the police so they can control the criminals.

But if the criminals have guns, the cops have guns, all will be havoc. So basically, what I'm saying is, guns should be restricted to only police officers.

 

[DropKick Murphys]

Necro:
That would be great if police officers were the only ones who would have guns, but since criminals don't obey the laws all that would do is disarm the population. If I was a criminal, I'd be a hell of a lot more likely to rob somebody if I knew there was no chance they had a gun on them.

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