I actually agree with all of this. The next step, however, is once you have the right, do you exercise the right? Why does it follow that you must carry if you can carry? It would be better for society if fewer people, rather than more people, are walking around carrying. We are currently seeing the results when every Tom, Dick, and Harry is going around armed. Simple arguments -- or simple misunderstandings -- escalate into deadly encounters. The presence of the gun is the key to that escalation. Please, leave the guns at home.
The RKBA exists REGARDLESS of whether a person chooses to carry or not.
The key here is that this is a personal choice. Not something that is to be dictated by others.
"Simple arguments" are also a matter of choice. So is the escalation of such.
Life is full of choices and the common factor in all of them is the fact that choices are personal. Meaning it's the individual people responsible for making them.
Not the inanimate objects they may or may not possess when they make them.
Those choices have consequences. Make bad choices then reap bad consequences.
All this leads up to the concept of "personal accountability". People who make bad choices should be held accountable for the consequences of THEIR actions.
When we demonstrate the holding of people accountable, then overall the number of people who choose to make poor choices decreases.
This is because they learn from other people's mistakes.
BUT LET'S TAKE THIS TO THE OPPOSITE EXTREME.
Going with your idea that it would be better for society if fewer people were to go about armed, let's disarm the whole of society.
What you have left is an armed government (because disarming those in power will never happen) and an "unarmed" population.
Completely ignoring the armed government, the "unarmed" population will, itself, have dangerous wolves far stronger and less inhibited about the use of violence against the sheep they live amongst.
And the vast majority of the unarmed population will not have tools with which to effectively defend themselves against these wolves.
Firearms are the ONLY weapon which levels the playing ground against stronger attackers. They are ranged weapons which virtually any person can use which does not require lots of strength or training to use and which can be used outside the effective physical range of an attacker.
All other weapons tilt in favor of the strong. Swords, knives, bows, spears, slings, etc.
No, this does not work either.