guns, bullets, and bombs

This is a quick thought because I'm not a deep thinker.

One article in today's New York Times Magazine talks about a person who has opened up a market for the trading of the ability to create greenhouse emissions. The concept is that while we wish nobody did this, perhaps the market can be used to make it profitable for company not to do it. Companies like profits.

Another article talks about what it's like to live in an environment where you routinely have to go into bomb shelters because otherwise your family is routinely in the risk of being killed (hideously). I can't believe that anyone wants that to happen, although both sides are apparently willing to let it happen and to cause it to happen.

So here's my thought.

We've seen how well peacekeeping efforts have worked over the years. One idiot or group of idiots with a gun or a group of guns, blammo, fighting starts again.

What if there was a market to allow this to occur which would have the effect of limiting how much it occurred? Not the total abolition of it (which is desirable in the abstract, but apparently not in the concrete) but the reduction of it?

Is that possible? Is that practical? Is that a ghoulish concept?