<i>If there is going to be violence at least moving from kill-at-a-distance weapons to fists is a step in the right direction.</i><p>Kill-at-a-distance weapons are often considered to be an equalizer, since it is <i>possible</i> for people with wildly different body types to weild a gun with similar stopping power effectively.  Using fists is the bare definition of &quot;might makes right&quot;, which isn&#x27;t desirable either.<p>The value in fist fighting is that there isn&#x27;t a proxy for the damage done, you are literally hurting someone with your own hands, which is arguably less humane because it can take longer and perhaps more brutal. Compared to long distance weapons, a gun is impersonal.  A nuclear weapon even more so.