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An without firearms we would live in a perfect world where no one would even try to harm another person.
Human history be damn if only those damn Chinese had not found gunpower we would all be sitting around in front of camp fires singing songs of brotherly love.
No one would had used a few box cutters and killed thousands and level two of the tallest buildings in the world, no one would had full a rental truck with home make eplosives and killed hundreds and destroy a Federal office building, six young gentlemen would not had build suicide vests in England and killed people using the tubes and buses.
Guns are like the lord of the ring just by existing they cause people to killed others even when no gun is used.