". It's somewhat interesting that once guns were discovered, our efforts pretty much focused there.....we figured we'd found the perfect weapon for killing each other. And perhaps we have."
Or the great equalizer. Now, a 4'10" 120 lb man can take on a 6'5" 240 lb man with a good chance of winning. "So had we never found that perfect weapon...the gun...would we simply have invented something else...something even worse? Perhaps without guns, we'd have invented pocket lasers, like something out of Star Trek, by now. Who knows." As a history aside, almost every weapon or tactic that results in mass death has been hailed a way to bring peace and prevent or shorten wars. A good podcast about it is: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-42---(BLITZ)-Logical-Insanity/Second%20World%20War-World%20War%20Two-World%20War%20One If you don't know who Carlin is, I'll let you know that he seems to be a left of center political commentator and historian. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360979 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
