[Charlatan]

The right to a militia and the right to keep and bear arms? When someone has a firearm they are empowered to use force to protect themselves, and when a country defends itself it is also doing a good thing by protecting the people.

If a counry did not have soldiers protecting it it would be easy prey for it's neighbours, so disbanding all armies would save money and make people feel safer. There are some countries in Europe that don't have armies as they see no need for them. Keeping trained troops will help fight other trained troops and that is why they are endorsed, but if there were no trained troops then all would be safe. If there were no guns then there would be less invasions as I don't see many people being able to use knives to fight - it takes something psychologically to fight with other weapons, and using a gun is easy because all you do is pull the trigger. You don't actually have to will yourself to kill a person, all it takes is a flex of the finger.

If there were no armies then there would be more peace, because the orders to invade come from someone who has great power but could not really fight themselves as they are too old to do so. WIth trained armies all you need to do is issue an order and the act of war is made eaiser to call for and support with troops on the ready, so, if there were no tropps on the ready then there would be no organised war so to speak and civilians would find it hard to invade each other's countries because of deployment. If no citizens could be deployed - lacking transport - there would be more peace. Riots, sure, but from a perspective of peaceful things people would not find it easy to carry out war. With the bluntening of the point of the sword people would not go to war, and there would be need for the other countries to keep troops to defend against them, although they could invade the ill equiped nations without militia.

So if all the countries went and destroyed their arsenals there would be no mass slaughter of each other. Countires would be forced to negotiate their way to success as they would have no alternatives. So what does the army do that is good? Kill other armies? If there were no armies then they would not be able to decree from parliament that going to war is possible. Would the people riot? Yes, but there are police to deal with them, so what is the point of keeping an army if you can get your neighbours to abandon the same cause? Having no armies would free up funds for other things, so are armies out dated? Take nuclear disarmament, same thing, if there were no nukes then there would be more free time for people to worry with. It is easy to hide nukes, but hard to hide armies.

So let's say that someone keeps a secret militia and invades the other country. WIthout troop transport their would be no swift deployment of troops making the journey long and arduous. What state today is in a position to attack it's neighbours? Then the wars will be over a longer strech than in the past requiring ships and stuff, without which there would be no war.

If every nation abandonded their arsenals and kept instead extra police, then they would save money and have a better patrolled state. So what do you do with firearms that the police need? You might have to keep the police in stock of rubber bullets to cause pain but not harm people, and with the abolision of fire arms manufacture there would be no fire arms for criminals and terrorists to arm themselves with.

Or let's ban the distribution of gun powder and it's processing. That would lead to a healthy situation - people protecting themselves with rubber bullets instead of killing people, criminals only wounding their prey. Sounds like a better world to me, so why not?

The problem is that people want to kill each other it seems. A nuke free world? Only possible if there are no armies in the first place. What use have you for nukes if there is no war? Financial gain? It's hard to see why this fear of feeling vulnerable still exists when it is so easy to curb it. I am sure though that getting rid of all the arms around today at present would be a hard task.