First of all, Vedas give us a way of life. It is NOT a religion as understood by the Semitic religions like Jews, Christians and Mohameddans. And who will ensure to live "strictly" by the scriptures? The pundits? Do we want to give the freedom that the Gita teaches to find your own path to God to some dalal as the Islamists seem to have done? Pulling out weeds, my dear fellow is not the same as pulling out a child from its mother's womb in a riot. A snake is killed more in fear and lack of knowledge than to prevent what you stated is the reason to kill one. Arjuna refused to kill at first. TGhat is why the Gita was enunciated. And the CENTRAL theme was "who are you (Arjuna) to kill anyone. I (Krishna) decide who is to die and how. You (Arjuna) are only a means for fulfilling my (krishna) decision." Arjuna then discarded his ATTACHMENT to the fruits of his actions and went ahead and did what was his duty to do as a warrior.
At least get some fundas of the vedas before venturing forth and spewing what others have been telling you. However, I do agree with you that the would would be a much better place to put the Vedas and Vedanta in the center of ALL education. As long as we Hindus cling to them as "ours", it cannot become mankinds'. Let go of these universal scriptures and we will have a peaceful and fulfilling lives in place of these disastrous religion based massacres and genocides.