Switzerland is a socialist hellscape with the highest per capita wealth on the planet, so clearly American Exceptionalism precludes any sensible comparisons from being made between the US and the Swiss. That's why talking about their health care system, where every person is mandated to purchase health care coverage just like in dastardly Obamacare, is immediately followed by tales of what it's like to be a Swiss person living in the communist-nazi infested ruins of Switzerland. Clearly they require their assault rifles in order to fend off the roving bands of socialist bandits.
All funny business aside, the Swiss really are the wealthiest per capita and have a great, stable society. Crime doesn't flourish under such circumstances, unlike in the US where there exists a very large portion of very poor people. Crime and poverty are, after all, joined at the hip. The Swiss also have conscription and universal health care, two things that I imagine if the USA ever even got a whiff of being enacted legislatively there would be blood in the streets. In short, I don't think you can compare Americans to the Swiss when talking about gun politics.
Last edited by Warborn; 2012-07-22 at 11:59 PM.
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