Guns X Sword.

 We live in an age of ever advancing technology. And in this age, the technology that is the most advanced and has the highest budget allocation is the defense technology. The peril in defense technology is that what the common man know is not always 'the most advanced' weapon out there. Every country has their secrets and their biggest secret is what they're packing!

 I sometime wish we lived in the age of swords. It would have been indeed good for the world if swords and bows had never advanced to Kevlar and bullets. The fact that modern technology gives someone power to hurt someone else without putting themselves in a danger zone is the biggest problem that has arisen from modern weapons. Any teenager can hold a gun and pull the trigger. Any country can push a button and annihilate a piece of land under the pretense of deterrence. Only the courageous holds a sword. That's why it is still considered as a honor symbol and held by the highest ranking officials in the military. It takes ample amount of courage for someone to hold a sword and injure someone with it, not to mention the skill and the strength which it requires. Even a something as simple as a bow takes in skill, strength and a steady hand to actually manage to kill someone. Imagine if you replace the gun with a sword. Then every little piece of sh*t out there who uses a gun to threaten people will think twice before he pulls out a sword on you. He has to be sure that he'll be able to use the sword. He also has to be completely confident in his own fighting skills or else you'll take him down even if you're unarmed. A sword is as good as its user, otherwise in the hands of a kid; its just a large but sharp piece of metal.

 Values like courage, honor, strength, dexterity and physical skill have lost their worth in the modern world. As automation technology and other modern weaponry comes into picture, more and more dull humans are able to act like God. We humans were weak creatures in the evolutionary cycle. In the process of making ourselves stronger, we forgot that we ourselves grow significantly weaker and weaker each passing day.