Marx and Winner Response

I believe that for the most part Landon Winner would agree with my thesis about the distribution of small arms.  Winner says that "people are often willing to make drastic changes to the way they live to accord with technological innovation" (37).  My thesis agrees with this because people make changes and vote for politicians who make them believe that nuclear weapons cause the most damage in the world.  Winner even says that "the atom bomb is an inherently political artifact" (32).  In conjunction with my thesis politicians use nuclear weapons to gain power while they ignore the weapons that commit the real atrocities.  Winner even states that "a given device might have been designed and building such a way that it produces a set of consequences logically and temporarily prior to any of its professed uses" (30).  Originally the Kalashnikov was created as an assault rifle the army of the USSR.  However it is now the primary weapon used for battle by dictators and terrorists around the world.  Marx asks the questions "does technology mean progress and progress toward what" (77).  Technology has given powers of the world immensely destructive weapons.  Countries like the US have decided to focus on controlling nuclear weapons while still dealing M-60s to dictators that we approve of.  The US uses all of the technology it has to prevent the distribution of nuclear weapons while not using some of that surveillance technology to keep small arms under control.