Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
One could argue the opposite - arms encourage peace. That said, the UK is certainly less armed. I don't know anything about Quebec's weapons laws.
Pretty weaponless, except for some hunting rifles. We have a strong desire to control firearms and some of the lowest deaths by firearms in Canada. We have some of the lowest homicide rates period. Maybe it comes from the military using firearms on us a lot throughtout history?
As for "an armed society being a polite society", I'm more on the same page as David Frum: "As more armed, the more that those as yet unarmed feel compelled to arm themselves too. The technical term for this is: barbarism. https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/301064338389753856