I read a good Sci-Fi short story many years ago about a pacifist who had developed technology that would inhibit any explosive or quick burning fuel in existance. It made all firearms obsolete. Tanks couldn't fire, it even kept flame throwers from burning.
He developed this technology in order to do away with war.
The unintended consequence, the next war became more brutal and savage than any previous war had been. The weapons used in this new brutal war, axes, clubs, spears, catapults with giant rocks.
Human beings will always find a way to kill each other if they so desire.
A mentally ill person who does not have access to a firearm, can simply go to Walmart and buy a machete from the camping supply section. He can fill a CamelPak with Gasoline and light a match as he sprays the people around him and sets them on fire. He can drive his car down the boardwalk at the beach and kill as many people as he can hit.
The author of the article doesn't understand the human element.
He developed this technology in order to do away with war.
The unintended consequence, the next war became more brutal and savage than any previous war had been. The weapons used in this new brutal war, axes, clubs, spears, catapults with giant rocks.
Human beings will always find a way to kill each other if they so desire.
A mentally ill person who does not have access to a firearm, can simply go to Walmart and buy a machete from the camping supply section. He can fill a CamelPak with Gasoline and light a match as he sprays the people around him and sets them on fire. He can drive his car down the boardwalk at the beach and kill as many people as he can hit.
The author of the article doesn't understand the human element.
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