My society is armed and people can be massive dicks sometimes.

Empirically wrong. See America, United States of

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So very wrong.

Sounds like something a gun lobbyist might come up with to sound clever

Sounds mildly sociopathic.

I'd say prove it.

No no no, you see it's just that we don't have enough guns yet! It only works if everyone is armed! /s

I'd say that the US is armed and school shootings still happen every few days. And I wouldn't call those polite by any means.

If that were true the US would be the nicest place in the world.

And seeing as we are a boring dystopia, I think we can agree that the saying holds no grounds whatsoever.

Not everyone should own a firearm and the more hands they are in the greater risk of any situation becoming a shooting gallery. Just look at those old west pictures when everyone Carried a gun. People many of whom were just bystanders got shot.