I feel a need to be controversial so here goes.
The only other "civilised" nation in the world that has handgun ownership levels approaching the US is Switzerland, right ?
Having done some research into the numbers of shootings in that country versus the number in the US (for legally owned guns used in illegal shootings, employee versus boss etc) I have perhaps not surprisingly discovered that such incidents are almost unheard of over the last 20 years in Switzerland. Now where does that leave me in terms of a conclusion, answer, we have a high flake content who also happen to like handguns and who are willing to kill people at MacDonalds when they get served with an undersized portions of fries. I am of course referring to the minority of gun owners here and not the law abiding majority, of which I am proud to include myself. But my basic point is this, why do we have so many more "crazies" than the Swiss when they have just as many guns per capita of the population.
Anyone care to hazard an opinion ?
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Mike H
The only other "civilised" nation in the world that has handgun ownership levels approaching the US is Switzerland, right ?
Having done some research into the numbers of shootings in that country versus the number in the US (for legally owned guns used in illegal shootings, employee versus boss etc) I have perhaps not surprisingly discovered that such incidents are almost unheard of over the last 20 years in Switzerland. Now where does that leave me in terms of a conclusion, answer, we have a high flake content who also happen to like handguns and who are willing to kill people at MacDonalds when they get served with an undersized portions of fries. I am of course referring to the minority of gun owners here and not the law abiding majority, of which I am proud to include myself. But my basic point is this, why do we have so many more "crazies" than the Swiss when they have just as many guns per capita of the population.
Anyone care to hazard an opinion ?
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Mike H