All Weapons on Earth Should be Destroyed

The Potential EndIt doesn't matter how close they came to "blow[ing] each other to bits", the facts are that they DIDN'T blow each other to bits. M.A.D. worked. This is a case where weapons brought about peace. The same situation can be found across countless police stand offs and criminal deterrants. The weapons prevented a war plain and simple.Police Brutality Your argument is straying from the original resolution now. We are arguing for the destruction of weapons not the creation of some new society. I already pointed out that we do have a fear and disgust for crime instilled in us from a young age and enforced by our legal system. Weapons are key to law enforcement because without the threat of some sort of retribution in the field criminals would never, ever surrender. Also, this debate is not about our legal system it is about the existence of weapons. No matter how hard you try you won't eliminate crime. If it were doable it would have been done by now.Teaching Children Are you supporting a system of vigilante justice in which criminals are cheered when killed in the streets? That is absurd. Also how do we have this system implemented if there are no weapons to enforce it? What will people be cheering for then? What you are proposing is almost the exact same thing US President LBJ proposed in his Great Society and War on Poverty and it did not work. Poverty is not such an easy beast to slay. Your argument: create a system in which crime will not exist and therefore the need for weapons disappears.However, we are talking about today's world and the situation in reality. In our current situation, if we made all weapons disappear today, it would not work. The debate is not about creating a utopian system in which weapons serve no purpose but whether or not we should destroy all weapons TODAY HERE AND NOW. And the answer to that is no. Weapons are Tools- Are you suggesting the First World buy tablets to sustain the entire Third World? This isn't viable in today's day and age. This doesn't happen. The Third World needs weapons to hunt and protect themselves from criminals and dangers. You can't just deprive them of their tools in pursuit of a silly First World utopian dream.- Man still hunts as sport and for food in some backwater areas and Third World countries. Hunting is not a dead art. - Once again you talk about a new society that does not pertain to this debate. You can't just eliminate a tradition and a sport because you feel like it would help your new society. People would fashion their own makeshift weapons and continue without your support. - Tradition is a big part of humanity. You can't just destroy culture for the sake of a utopia, that is just inhuman. Weapons are still tools today, people still hunt and in places like the Australian Outbackand the US Deep South guns are a treasured heritage. ResourcesIn the US arms manufacturing and sales is one of the biggest industries we have. We are the world's largest weapons exporter and total revenue has totaled over 5 billion a year for the past ten years. [1] So while the military incurs costs the weapons industry makes some of it up through sales. And according to your number, overtakes "military spending" by quite a bit. Other WeaponsUnfortunately your solution isn't realistic. Your society cannot exist outside of the pages of Orwell's 1984.The reality is our world is a dangerous place, people have violent and criminal intent and weapons are needed. Your solution is a complete fantasy, story telling at its finest. In today's world, you cannot simply eliminate weapons! Maybe in your fantasy but not in reality.ConclusionIn today's world:- weapons are tools- weapons deter crime and violence in situations- weapons are a big industry for the United States and many parts of the world- hunting and personal defense are not outdated practices and are still needed today- in the absence of official weapons a homemade underground weapons market would sprout and cause more harm than the official weapons business- you can't destroy poverty and you can't eliminate crime or violent natureThank you. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...;