Oh, Please...

Bullets do not kill people. Guns do not kill people. Bombs do not kill people. While some are tempted to think of such tools as weapons and as the causes of death, this is not true. The only weapon that a man wields is the mind. People kill people, the mind is the weapon. The tools will be whatever is at hand. When people don't have guns, it's true that they don't shoot other. That's when they start using machetes, fire, screwdrivers, bare hands, and even famine as the tools of the death trade. Exhibit A: Pretty much any of the African genocides... entire villages hacked to bits or starved.

I do not at all like the escapist notion that the world wold be a peaceful place but for these things called (guns/bullets/grenades/tanks/bows/arrows/knives/chemical blister agents/atomic bombs). I reject it out of hand, but I also hate it because it's an attempt to go around a problem, take the easy way out, not face it and go through. I think that to believe that man is not the root of evil and the cause of his own suffering is to live in a fantasy land, but it's such a nice fantasy to live in. Believing as such, you would never have to confront the difficult problem of what to do with a person that has decided the life of another is there for the taking. You would not have to face the demons that live in your own heart, and never have to be put in the position of realizing that eutopia can never come. Wake, dreamer.

Albert Einstein once said something to the effect of that he did not know what sort of weapons would be used to fight World War 3, but that he knew that World War 4 would be fought with sticks and stones. The mind is the weapon, it is the only weapon. The mind is what makes matter subservient to human will, and it is the mind that takes life. When men run out of bombs and bullets, there will still be death. There will still be murder.

Take the step to address the evil within the human mind, and you will do more to end war than if you could somehow, magically, make all the guns, bombs, bullets, and blades go away. You can try to do the latter, but you will fail. The 'Bullet Trade' will never leave us. You have a chance if you go with the former.

Aside: I have personally used over 250,000 rounds of military grade ammunition. I have not once taken a human life. Bullets do need to be fired at people.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet...
I was not aware that the U.S. was planning to attack Venezuela... We, after all, have intergalactic wars to start.