Sorry I went a tad overboard and misconstrued your posting.

The whole issue is actually fun to debate and while I'm sure we'll never, ever agree on it it still exercises the brain.

I brought up rocks as they were used as weapons but in reflection I probably should have left them out of the narrative. Sharp sticks (spears) however WERE designed solely to kill, as were every implement listed after.

In actuality a bow can kill at far greater range than a handgun can.

My base point is I simply do not trust my government to always do the right thing no matter who is running the show. Power corrupts and those in office seek only to amass more power unto themselves. Couple that with legal precedent that the police are under no obligation to protect you from a criminal and that is my reason for choosing to carry a weapon while I am not working.

Turn the other cheek is all nice and dandy until someone is trying to turn your neck into a reasonable facsimilie of a Pez dispenser.

But since we're on the road of the government is supposed to protect us, by removal, of anything capable of doing harm- perhaps we should ban religion. More people have been killed because God, Allah, Ya-eh or whoever is being prayed to at the time told them. Religious intolerance has killed more people than firearms have, however the longer religion is allowed to proliferate the more people will die in His name.

People are dying right here and now in the most horrific ways, not 1000 meters from where I sit, not even because of a differing God but on political divisions dating back over a thousand years!

We need to outlaw religion immediately, after all If we can save just ONE life.....

^ is obviously hyperbole to make a point.