Posted on 04/24/2014 6:18:38 PM PDT by lbryce
What Switzerland Can Teach Us About Guns, I Wonder
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And they’re riding bikes.
And they look not-guilty. I don’t care for travel, but maybe I should go to Switzerland.
I could use some instruction.
There’s a reason why Germany decided not to invade Switzerland during World War 2. The entire country mobilized in three days and they were armed.
You don’t know how to ride a bike?
I’m not a very good yodeler, so could also use some practice in the scenic canyons of Die Schweiz.
Lowest crime rate in the world.
Because of the absence of a certain ethnic group in their society — in fact, because of a high degree of homogeneity and lack of diversity.
When the topic is GUNS, liberals say: the more you talk about it and put it in front on them, the MORE kids will want to shoot people and do violence.
Weird, huh?
I am still baffled by a (liberal female) PHD Swiss friend that works at Goethe University, she had never heard of any of this gun stuff, and knew nothing about it.
Sounds like she wasn’t born or raised there, and wasn’t told about the country’s history with arms.
She must have skipped the later adolescent years.
She was born and raised there, she married my German friend who teaches at Goethe, is why she now lives in Germany.
My guess is that being female, she managed to never notice anything related to that aspect of Swiss life.
According to an old story, a German general told a Swiss general that “Our army is five times as big as yours. What would you do if we invaded?”
The Swiss general said...”All of our soldiers would fire five shots each, then go home.”
Hitler had bigger fish to fry and he needed the railway bridges and tunnels running through Switzerland intact.
He needed their banking skills most of all...
M guess is that being a liberal (as you said she is), shes looking you straight in the face and lying right down to her very bones, on behalf of the needs of the collective, with absolutely zero conscience problems.
At one time, wasn’t it a law that all Swiss men were required to maintain arms? Maybe it still is.
You may have also read that she is my friend, I wouldn’t be associating with what you described, but thanks for emoting, I hope you feel better.
To this day, every male, when he turns 20, is issued a full automatic military rifle and required to keep it at home. Universal service in the Militia Army is required. When a Swiss is no longer required to serve, he may keep his rifle (converted from automatic to semi-automatic) or his pistol (if he served as an officer).
All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.
Interest in gun ownership is waning, partly due to the shrinking size of the conscripted militia that serves as Switzerland’s army. Men between the ages of 20 and 30 report for training and are issued military weapons, which they keep at home.
All of the above are from different sources. It appears that your “friend” is applying a little selective memory. It is IMPOSSIBLE for her to have grown up in Switzerland with a father and or uncle or brothers and NOT know about the gun laws there. It is MANDATORY. Sorry.
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