“An armed society is a polite society.”
Nonsense.
If you are only polite because you think anyone you are gratuitously obnoxious to will shoot you because of it, then you are polite solely and exclusively out of fear.
Likewise if you are obnoxious only because you believe nobody will stand up to you because they have no gun, then you are obnoxious solely and exclusively because you think others are afraid of you.
Either way, you have someone who is acting because they believe in power through fear.
Conversely a truly polite person will always be polite, whether he knows the person he is talking to might decide to randomly shoot him over some perceived offense, or because he expects nobody will assault him because he is armed. He is polite because he is polite, just as the jerk is a jerk because he is a jerk.
What you mean is that your armed society is a society of obnoxious bullies, restraining themselves solely out of fear of their neighbors.
