What Switzerland Can Teach Us About Guns,I Wonder;Send A Liberal To The Alps For the Summer

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[Bringbackthedraft]

Hmmmmmm? Not really that much to hunt in Switzerland, AND THEY HAVE GUNS? Gee they must have a 2nd Amendment in their Constitution too.

[ansel12]

Actually I have two books on what you just shared, not to mention reading countless articles on the Swiss and the military.

I think she did what I have seen many females do, manage to miss huge swaths of what is going on that doesn’t concern them and interest them.

I have a female friend that was going on against guns one day and I tried to remind her of all the guns in Houston homes when we were growing up, or how many guns she had to walk by to get to my bedroom in my mother’s house, she had totally forgotten such things, dating California girls, I can’t tell you how young females I dated who were “vegetarians” but who ate hamburgers, without getting the connection.

If this conversation switched from “guns” to how well insulated some females can live, in living in their own little world, then we would all be able to understand how a PHD type Swiss girl could grow up and never know about the details of her nation’s military and mandatory service.

I brought up all the obvious questions about boyfriends/father and such, I can also introduce you to many American females who are proud of their father’s war time service, except that they just don’t know what branch he was in, or what he did in the war, and sometimes not know which war it was.

[elcid1970]

Those Swiss gals bicycling with their SIG rifles have nothing on Israeli girl soldiers walking on the beach in Haifa in bikinis with their M-16’s.

Or maybe both are a great idea. Stacked & packed!

[Talisker]

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.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Switzerland has a population of eight million people, all of whom face mandatory conscription and firearm ownership laws. You friend grew up in that environment, knows nothing about it whatsoever, and the fact that she is a liberal has nothing to do with the impossibility of her claims, even though they fully fit the liberal agenda.

I'm not the one emoting here.

[ansel12]

Actually, you are the one emoting, but thanks for sharing.

[Hotlanta Mike]

It’s impossible to miss. I lived 7 years in Switzerland and spent another 5 working for a Swiss company here in the US and therefore travelled back there quite a bit.

The soldiers mostly travel from their residences to the place of their deployment by public transportation. You see them in their uniforms carrying their gear on the trains. They go out on maneuvers to different areas in the country and their movements cannot be missed. They miss work each year for their training and cannot be fired for this time away.

And those who are dismissed from military duties are instead assigned duties with the civil services. Each home and apartment block has bomb shelters built into them, which also doubles for a good wine cellar.