". 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


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