“Maybe a few more thugs thinking that guy might shoot me if I jump him would be a good thing.”
An armed society IS a polite society.
An unarmed society is a jungle. All the biggest get to beat and have their way with the smallest.
(Any women on these threads defending that dead POS should remember that - cause you are pretty much always the smallest.)
That's why "Mr. Ruger" is my best friend and constant companion.
An armed society is a polite society.
But an unarmed society, and one in which the State prosecutes self defense, are pretty much the same.