X-Ftn-To: Scout 

"Scout"  wrote:
>> won't work now, unless you could manage to stuff that technology back into
>> Pandora's Box.
>
>Sorry, that "unless" should have been "even if".
>
>Because that is the ONLY way to remove the guns.
>
>Short of visiting space aliens and their "Anti-Gun Beam" (tm)

There is another, even less likely way for people to abandon them, and
that is to develop so much compassion for others, that they'd prefer
being killed to killing (the ones who have a beloved wife or a child
can ask themselves whether they'd prefer killing their beloved ones,
or to be killed by them, and then to imagine that they love every
single being with the same love). This would immediately solve the
problem of violence and weapons would be obsolete. They would also
care enough to see that there are no hungry and the homeless, and that
everybody gets good education. This is what we do for our families,
and we need no guns to protect us against our family members.

However, some people are such assholes that even a notion of this will
seem ridiculous to them, because selfishness and hatred seem to be
more "normal" than love and kindness.

But just think about which world would you rather inhabit, the one of
compassion or the one of selfishness? According to this choice, become
an inhabitant of your chosen world. It is that simple.

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