Not really. According to Tolkien...
Nonetheless, ease and peace had left this people still curiously tough.They were, if it came to it, difficult to daunt or to kill; and they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive rough handling by grief, foe, or weather in a way that astonished those who did not know them well and looked no further than their bellies and their well-fed faces. Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms. They shot well with the bow, for they were keen-eyed and sure at the mark. Not only with bows and arrows. If any Hobbit stooped for a stone, it was well to get quickly under cover, as all trespassing beasts knew very well.
You don't want to mess with a pissed-off Hobbit!
Good hearty stock, all.
Maybe they were prototyping some kind of prehistoric Australian precursor to gun control, but the hobbits did not fall for it (when stones are outlawed, only outlaws will have stones)...