>The bottom line: I think guns are low-tech, old-style tools. They are not
>futuristic, intelligent technology. Guns destroy someone else's future
options
>to limit their potential. (Hopefully because that person's future plans are
>deemed to be "bad".) They do not create options or expand future options.
>Guns are only useful in negative situations that are not progressing in an
>extropian-desireable manner.
Well, when you define guns, I guess you are defining them as conventional old style weapons that shoot physical projectiles.. Is an Ion Cannon that destroys an incoming asteroid that could destroy our planet earth a low tech old style tool/gun, or a high tech useful gun ? .. those are the kinds of useful weapons I was referring to that can be categorized as a "gun"..
If you are referring to handguns or handweapons, your message was, in it's entirity, correct...
John
[The Human Mind Is Capable Of Solving The Problem Of The Human Mind]