JustBobF,

Okay, lets dissect the idea of a gunless utopia.  I'm far from being an accomplished historian or social scientist, but excepting perhaps a couple of POSSIBLE short-lived examples where any shred of an historic record has survived at all, I fail to see how the absence of guns has led to any net gain in human happiness and security in all of human history.  Humans have forever sought some advantage over other individuals, families, clans, or groups.  If brute physical strength can do it, then okay.  If it takes a hand-axe of stone, better yet.  If a longbow is what's needed, then even better.  The point is that before the gun, many, many people lived in what we might term human misery if not outright slavery and subjugation.

I take it from your moniker that you're a guy.  I'm okay with that, but you don't need to look to ancient history to know that (mostly) stronger and bigger men have had it all over (mostly) weaker and smaller women.  True it was then, and true it is now.