Yes, Nukes do not kill people either. It's all a matter of efficiency. Nukes are very efficient at killing people so human beings world wide want them to be gone or only in the 'hands' of a very few very responsible people. Nerve gas is an efficient people killer too and people the world over want it gone. Virulent viruses and other virulent micro-organisms are efficient people killers and people everywhere wish they were never made. These are large scale efficient people killers. There is a descending scale of efficiency for people killing instruments. Human beings carefully control poisons, tanks, bombs, etcetera. Many lands have laws forbidding swords unless they are blunt non-lethal ones. And then we come to guns. The NRA propagandises that guns are a right and that they are part of the right to self defence. That is not the truth. Guns, like lethal swords, poisons, tanks, bombs, nerve-gas, and nukes ought to be controlled in proportion to the efficiency with which they can kill people.
There is a plant outside one of my neighbor's residence that is poisonous. If memory serves, it was planted by Council for it's ornamental effect. Touched or handled it is harmless, but a child unawares could eat the leaves and die in a short time.
I have some experience in tinctures and oils from plants. I could take this plant, turn it's active ingredients into a liquid or oil, and smear it onto darts . Maybe I am not a good aim. So I make a blow gun out of some bamboo.
In the space of a few hours, I could assemble my blow gun and my poison darts and use them to kill or harm a bunch of people.
Perhaps the plant should be banned and bamboo put in the hands of "responsible" people in "authority" who can protect the population from itself.
Now tanks and nukes are not so easy to make. But then, for home protection, I'm reckoning they would be useless anyway. My blowgun could put a man down in seconds where a tank or big bomb would be practically useless.
Blunt swords? Sheesh. How difficult is it to sharpen a blunt blade? Better ban kitchen knives too - anything that could be potentially lethal. Cutting up your pork roast with a butter knife might be the way to go. Can't imagine the fun of that. But, at least everyone will be safe - and the only reaction you're likely to get from the frustration at how long it's taking to cut up a roast and brandishing it as a weapon would be laughter.
