https://www.neatorama.com/2021/10/19/The-Shooting-Range-that-Crosses-a-Highway/
“One country has seen over 500 mass shootings in 2023 alone, while the other has had less than a handful over the past twenty years.”
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Most folks know exactly why but will not say it in public.
But they know...
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No African American ‘Rats in CH?
I think it proves a point I often try to make. It’s not about the guns. It’s about the culture.
How many minorities do they have in Switzerland?
I've read articles that claimed if you removed the minority crimes from the US, we have a lower crime rate than any place in Europe.
I once rented a Swiss car but couldn’t get the dang thing out of neutral.
complete bs.
anyway, at a guess, our population .5 billion (counting illegals). swiss about .005 billion this we have .5 / .005 = 100x difference at the outset. meaning on population alone we ought to have about 100 for every one of their’s. after that we dice their lying statistics and i bet the homcides our population of law abiding, *citizen* gun owners is comparable or better than theirs.
How do you think all those holes got in the Swiss cheese.
Colion Noir debunks the Johnny Harris Swiss gun culture slobberfest.
(I took some editorial license with my title.)
Here an alternate view
Debunking the Viral Gun Control Propaganda: Why the Swiss Love Their Guns More Than Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_aohjp7I0
The lack of diversity is their strength.
My Swedish Mauser (6MM Carbine) is one mighty fine weapon. It was $79 at Woolworths in 1985.
Density of population in the urban cities is the answer.
Don’t expect the low IQ, impulse control to come up with it anytime soon.
I didn’t watch the video, and maybe they cover it, but I’d be willing to bet they have gun safety and handling courses in Switzlerland as standard educational material.
The guy in the video drove me nuts!
He kept his finger on the trigger!
He was very not knowledgeable about guns.
He didn’t hold them right and not good muzzle control.
At least he tried to be honest about it and not be some crazed idiot like Piers Morgan.
The big difference is the Swiss are a fairly homogeneous culture that identify and deal with the problem members of society quickly.
USA has all sorts of different cultures and thanks to that we cannot under, our laws deal with problems.
Our biggest problem is the Democrat party.
Like many have said if you factor out one segment of the Democrats, our gun crime rate would be less than most every European country.
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/10/19/The-Shooting-Range-that-Crosses-a-Highway/
“To understand why there’s such a stark difference between these two countries’ gun culture”
Idiots, Switzerland does not have inner cities full of low-IQ pavement apes. They may not drug up mental cases, dunno about that one.
No ummmm.....”diversity”
https://davekopel.org/2A/Foreign/swiss-and-their-guns.html
While Switzerland is clear proof that guns are not in themselves “daemons” (as one Denver priest recently claimed), Switzerland does not by itself prove the ease against gun control in America. Indeed, author Clinard argues that strict gun controls are necessary in the U.S.
Clinard’s argument cannot be dismissed out of hand. After all, few readers of this magazine would want America to adopt the lenient criminal sentencing practices of Switzerland. Opponents of lenient sentencing would argue, correctly, that America does not have the stable, integrated community structures of Switzerland. Thus, the American government must take a more coercive, authoritarian role in controlling prisoners, to make up for the lack of community controls.
The same point might be made about guns. Although guns are more available to the Swiss, Swiss gun culture is more authoritarian than America’s. Gun ownership is a mandatory community duty, not a matter of individual free choice. In Switzerland, defence of the nation is not a job for professional soldiers or for people who join the army to learn technical skills for civilian jobs. Defence of the nation is the responsibility of every male citizen.
Cultural conditions, not gun laws, are the most important factors in a nation’s crime rate. Young adults in Washington, D.C., are subject to strict gun control, but no social control, and they commit a staggering amount of armed crime. Young adults in Zurich are subject to minimal gun control, but strict social control, and they commit almost no crime.
America-with its traditions of individual liberty-cannot import Switzerland’s culture of social control. Teenagers, women, and almost everyone else have more freedom in America than in Switzerland.
“500 mass shootings” is a false fact. Break the 500 down to every individual mass shooter and the answer is quite clear. Nobody wants to go there even with irrefutable facts.