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Just as an information point. The Armed Society is a Polite Society quote comes from a Robert Heinlein book which postulates a very nasty culture which was a genetically determined caste system. People wore tatoos of their genetic status and there was a clearly discriminated against genetic underclass. The 'armed' part came from a dueling aspect of young toughs who bossed others around. Not a 'polite' society in our terms.
The hero of the book, in fact, thought the dueling aspect was stupid and was going to abandon being armed and wearing an arm band that announced he could not be challenged in a duel. The flip side was that he had to deter to the dueling culture toughs.
He was convinced by a member of the ruling class not to do that and for grins carried a 1911 instead of the usual ray guns. The latter made neat cauterized holes and usually survivable. His opponents were shocked by 45 ACP impact. Not so nice.
Thus, the mantra, if you know its origin, isn't what you think it is.
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NRA, TSRA, IDPA, NTI, Polite Soc. - Aux Armes, Citoyens
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