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No, if you kill everybody on the other side, you don't have to sit and talk. Or if you can kill enough so that they'll themselves guess what you want and give it to you so that you wouldn't kill the rest.
This quote ignores the issue of sociopaths, which may constitute up to 10% of people in every group.
So to prevent bloodshed you have to be strong enough to defend yourself. No other way.
Weapons usable in war should be as easy to get as notebooks and pens. Or at least as smartphones. Then we'll see some kind of peace (the medieval way, there'll be more small-scale violence, but less large-scale violence as in war, and less death all things considered).
The one country in which this is a reality shows the exact opposite. There's more small scale hun violence in the USA as any other place in the world. It's not even close.
I think you've just demonstrated inability to read. I literally said that there'll be more crime with such instruments involved, but fewer large-scale wars.
And I wasn't talking about small arms, I was talking about FPV drones, small mortars and other such things.
You were applying "a well armed society is a polite society" to geopolitics. I disagree. Weapons are what you fall back on after all the other options have failed. A "ballot box, jury box, ammo box" sort of deal.
Education and tolerance are the tools of peace. If your leaders are extremists who can't compromise, pointing fingers for who you should hate more, jump to labels and teams, and issue ultimatums rather than dialogue, then you are on a road to war.
Again you may, others may not think this way. It takes only one side to start a war.
Because real education and real tolerance make you stronger in war.
You are also on a road to war indefinitely if this is how the neighboring society's leaders are.