Dated a Swiss man a lifetime ago. Every man is required to serve in the armed forces and every man is issued a gun. Every man must spend 2 weeks a year in the service. I believe it was 18-45 years of age. Now, this was in the 80’s, so some things may have changed. Can you imagine our Government issuing a weapon to every man? PS-those mountains have boatloads of tunnels AND survival dormitories in them.
Outline for a Sci-fi novel. Between Ebola and Islam the human population of the Earth is eliminated except for a tiny Swiss population holed up in the tunnels and the world is repopulated by their descendants. Far-fetched? Oh, I don’t know, what do you think? Somehow I would not be surprised to see some variant of this appear in book form before New Year’s day.