Comment by Krustopolis
5 years ago
If your statistics are correct, that lends credence to the old saw, "An armed society is a polite society." But that's likely predicated on everything thinking that everyone else is armed (which in high gun control areas would not be the case). Sort of like nuclear weapons' "mutually assured destruction."
Yet some of what people commonly referred to polite societies barely have guns and the opposite can be said for those with lots of guns.
The exceptions for the latter category being countries with high external national risk or no standing army.