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An armed society is a polite society.

Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for a different quality of discussion here.

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Really? Because I have a guy screaming burnt into my retinas for watching that horrible video from New Jersey where a couple taunt a man who snaps, gets his guns and shoots them both.

I made the mistake of watching it about a month ago, when it leaked, and I can't get the husbands screams out of my head.

If that's a polite society then I'll take an impolite society without guns over that any day.

The subtext of “armed society is a polite society” is that you don’t taunt or start petty arguments in the first place, in case the guy turns out to be like the one in the video.

But that's exactly what happened. In a state where you can legally own automatic rifles these people relentlessly taunted a man until he got his pistol and his rifle and shot them both.

And someone else said "well now everyone in that neighborhood know better", sure, and it only took three lives and orphaned children to make it happen. Congrats.

Then it is provable wrong. I can't believe anyone who has watched news from the US could believe in such foolishness. If anything it is just the opposite. Just goggle that video.

If the couple had their own gun(s), this fellow would have been much more polite.

or they had killed each other already.

https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190722/guns-in-home-g...

Sounds logical. I don't understand the downvotes.

> a couple taunt a man who snaps, gets his guns and shoots them both.

I missed this one, what happened?

Arguably, everyone in that neighborhood will err on the side of politeness for the foreseeable futute.

Why, because everyone is scared of each other?

Great quote from a science fiction novel. Emphasis on the fiction.

Are American drivers more polite due to the higher amount of cars in the US?

The correlation is not direct

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