Is an armed society, a more polite society?
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I carry a 1911A1 .45... Legally. I don't know if I'm more polite though. It's kind of like spiderman... I'm held to a higher level of law for having the permit to carry a gun, thus I have more of an obligation to respect the law that offers that permit to me.\n\nWhen people ask for my ID I offer it to them. When they see it is a CWP... Often they freak out... They should be more freaked out about those who carry without a permit.\n\n While in line for breakfast one morning at McDonalds, a 17 year-old boy in front of me pulled a gun from his pocket and demanded all the cash. I inturn put mine to his head and simply said "Apoligize". He put the gun down and the police held me for 4 hours until they got all the facts. I'll never know if I did the correct thing, McDonalds thanked me. and the kid was crying and pee'd his pants right where he stood.\n\n I still have nightmares about it. I carry for personal reasons and PRAY I never need to pull it out.\n\n If I was mugged... I'd freely give up my money and coat and not pull it. If my life, or anothers was as risk... Who could ever say what they would honestly do. I'd never judge someone either way too.\n\nSome of you may feel guns are evil. Or only evil people own guns. However you may feel that is your feelings. I have no right to bash you about them. I only wish you respect those who do have them LEGALLY and took the time to get the permit. Because there are so many who don't.\n\nDon't fear the gun... It won't do a thing unless there is a finger...\nI know though that I was the most scared at McDonalds that day. Not the kid who peed his pants....\n\nJust my 2 cents.\n\n\nNow... What was the question?
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nice.\n\nI think vigilantes would be better, might take a few bungs though.\n\nStill, those in power don't seem adverse to that do they.\n\nOr a wealthy benefactor?\n\nAll good ideas, I'd join.
803063
I agree with the statement.  the reason that we don't have a peaceful society is that not everyone follows this creed.
836304
Depends.\nIf I got food on the table and am ready to eat, I'd just as soon have a knife handy. \nIf I got no food on the table and I'm hungary, I'd much prefer to have a gun handy.\nI guess you could say it's all about priorities.
211586
Society generally has a prob with people who do things outside cultural norms.
475261
Language dosent matter, but Manners.
315115
Proper etiquette was ingrained in me as a child. My mothers side of the family has a strong "proper English" back round and it just was a way of life. Hospitality was the norm. Being polite at our own dinner table at home was always upheld. It was very nice to have my fathers side of the family to balance this out. They were often blunt and had a hearty appetite for laughter, even in public.\nI am grateful that I was raised with both. I can enjoy the company of a variety of people and not just those that are "socially acceptable"(heavy quotation marks there)\n\n"Please" and "Thank you" I think are just the cornerstones of good manners. Politeness is something that shows respect as well. Being courteous to strangers is a must for me. I would want the same in return.\n\n How important are they? On a scale of 1 - 10 I would say an 8. Very important. But certainly not the most important things in life.
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We should say, to protect ourselves, not for killing each other, not for going to ruin the nature.  \n\nThere's no need to have guns when we respect each other with love in the whole world.
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It depends on how you are defining "civilized". If you are referring to things that we have and use to make our lives better/easier, then yes. Technology has brought us so very, very far in the past 50 years. We have so many things, that most of us take for granted, that were only pipe-dreams 50 years ago.\nOn the other hand, if you are referring to how we are, act, or behave, we have sadly declined. As others spoke of, it used to be that everyone left their doors unlocked - you knew everyone who lived around you, if not the entire town - you could walk next door and borrow a tool, even a tractor, of a neighbor, and as a whole, everyone was assured of the fact that anything that was borrowed, was always returned in a timely manner - in the same, or possibly better shape as when first borrowed - \nYou weren't bombarded with stories of murders, terrorists, and child-molesters, on the news EVERY night.\nI could go on and on...but do I really need to?\n\nSo, it really breaks down to what you really meant when you said, "civilization".\nJust pick which answer suits your opinion.\nThanks for the question...have a good day, now.
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how, as a society, people interact with each other \n\n9 words
963340
How about if you STOP Stereotyping the Military Servicemember and REALIZE this -- we DO have a Code of Conduct that we MUST work within ... and we do NOT go about indiscriminately killing unarmed people.
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Its a matter of "WHY ?". I mean; like guns. Fire arms are not good or bad; is the use and propouses that humans do to make the real difference.
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If our defense be the real object of having arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? \n\nPeople who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and republicanism is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
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......sometimes necessary to ensure civilized behavior prevails.
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Agree.  Criminials like for their victims to be unarmed.  The only thing a gun law ever did was cause crime rates to go up, because criminals are no longer afraid they might get shot.
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Let me see, guns don't get up and decided to go rob or shoot someone. They are not possessed and can't think, walk, or see.  So I'm going to go with "b": The people using the guns kill people.\n\nAnd before anyone tries to argue that having a guns makes someone more prone to shoot, that's not so. There are far too man gun owners in the USA that do not misuse their guns. There would be a whole lot more dead people in the country if that were the case. Knives kill more people with more efficiency than guns. Watching TV would leave you to believe otherwise, but it's not the case.
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It depends on the manners.\nBut mainly if yes if you want to keep your dignity.