> There is a saying, an armed society is a polite society. There are all sorts of sayings. Is this one true? The United States is the most heavily armed count

> There is a saying, an armed society is a polite society. There are all sorts of sayings. Is this one true? The United States is the most heavily armed country of any size in the world. It is also more heavily armed than any time in its past. And yet politeness appears to be at an all-time low. Certainly, a lot of political figures say things that are just astonishingly rude and horrible and false, things that would have destroyed their careers even twenty years ago but seem to make them very popular today. It seems that saying is wildly false. > I have no idea where you came up with "Many is civil war". Probably they are knowledgeable about history, as their statement is simply true. > Civil war erupts when one entity has a monopoly on violence and enough people decide that they've had quite enough of that, thank you very much. I'm baffled as to how this makes sense to you. How exactly do these people "decide they have had enough of that" without abrogating the states monopoly on violence? Surely by the time you get to civil war, there are _two sides fighting_?? It's like you just cut and paste a lot of slogans and stop thinking critically there. I really suggesting reading some history.