Subway customer shot and killed employee and injured another over "too much mayonnaise"

[gracchus]

@angusm

Apparently an armed society isn’t a polite society after all, unless you consider it the height of politeness to unholster your piece and perforate someone’s spleen with chunks of fast-moving metal because they messed up your condiment choices.

Guns Don’t Kill Americans, Stale Bad Arguments Do

Thank you. “Moar gunz” isn’t really the answer. Related claim: “An armed society is a polite society” (Heinlein). Putting aside the implied strange desire to live in a society where the only way to be a considerate person is by constantly living in fear of someone shooting you, this doesn’t work out in real life. Rank these OECD countries on their reputation for politeness and then consider the degree of unfettered access their citizens have to firearms: Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, t…