In any war, cold or hot, against drugs or terror or just plain old people, a sizeable percentage of resources goes into developing bigger, better, badder weapons. In a war against personal weaponry, that would be A Bad Thing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'