Peter:  I present "if no had guns, we'd all be far safer"....as one extreme of the discussion re: gun control.  The inverse would be "if we all carried guns, we'd all be safer."  There are folks who believe one or the other of those extreme positions.  I'm not sure that "no guns" wouold necessarily lead to anarchy transitioning to rule by physical strength.  All of history has seen the advance of weapons in the quest for dominance by force.  I would suggest the ongoing development of firearmsk and advanc ed weapons has been a integral part of that quest.  There exist communities with virtually no firearms and they do not, ipso facto, disintegrate into chaos.  Gary Crum