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<blockquote data-quote="Soltares" data-source="post: 160643" data-attributes="member: 4070">&gt;An armed society is a polite society.A phrase.&nbsp; No more deep or inherently correct than 'Might makes right' or 'Kill them all, God shall know his own.'In the US, Texas is the strongest proponent of an armed society and the right to bear arms, to the fairly absurd level of having one town where it is technically illegal for an adult to be unarmed outside of their own home.&nbsp; (I have no idea if this law is enforced, what do they do to someone who leaves their gun at home?&nbsp; Shoot them?)Texas is also the state required to execute the most violent offenders, having the largest incidence of murder per capita (actually Louisiana tends to swap this statistic with them, I'm not sure if Texas is winning the body count race this year...).Certainly an armed society MIGHT be a polite society.&nbsp; But apparently not in this country.Given that an unarmed person is motivated to avoid violence, where an armed person is secure in the knowledge that he can kill anyone in a split second, I would presume that the reverse would be true.&nbsp; But that also would just be an assumption.Armed people are no nicer than unarmed people.&nbsp; They can just kill faster, and apparently that is important to them, which means any sane person would stay the hell away from them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Soltares, post: 160643, member: 4070"] >An armed society is a polite society. A phrase. No more deep or inherently correct than 'Might makes right' or 'Kill them all, God shall know his own.' In the US, Texas is the strongest proponent of an armed society and the right to bear arms, to the fairly absurd level of having one town where it is technically illegal for an adult to be unarmed outside of their own home. (I have no idea if this law is enforced, what do they do to someone who leaves their gun at home? Shoot them?) Texas is also the state required to execute the most violent offenders, having the largest incidence of murder per capita (actually Louisiana tends to swap this statistic with them, I'm not sure if Texas is winning the body count race this year...). Certainly an armed society MIGHT be a polite society. But apparently not in this country. Given that an unarmed person is motivated to avoid violence, where an armed person is secure in the knowledge that he can kill anyone in a split second, I would presume that the reverse would be true. But that also would just be an assumption. Armed people are no nicer than unarmed people. They can just kill faster, and apparently that is important to them, which means any sane person would stay the hell away from them. [/QUOTE]

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