The following is an excerpt I liked from JFK's inaugural address. Basically, he was implying that if everybody owns a big gun, the world would be a safer place (this logic didn't help him personally). I see merit in this argument, especially in global sense - the best way to stop a war is by creating conditions that deter it. Thieves don't try to break into the White House every day, for a good reason! Gandhi was imprisoned in his own land because India was (and still is, for its size) defenseless and divided.
Even in local sense, guns will even out (to a large extent) the unfair advantage physically stronger people have over the weaker folks. I used to think differently on this issue about ten years ago. May be I have been eating Texas' soil for a little too long!
Even in local sense, guns will even out (to a large extent) the unfair advantage physically stronger people have over the weaker folks. I used to think differently on this issue about ten years ago. May be I have been eating Texas' soil for a little too long!
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
