[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[JoeProBono]

[longfellow]

I’ve seen what they can do with a knife so I can only imagine what they’re tanks can do.

[skinkinthegrass]

they (ALL :) got guns.

[Yo-Yo]

Why No One Ever Invades Switzerland...

I'm sure all those numbered Swiss Bank accounts have nothing to do with it.

[nickcarraway]

I have to respectfully disagree. The main reason Switzerland hasn’t been invaded is not their neutrality or guns, it’s their geography. Being located in high mountains makes it very difficult.

[Reaganite Republican]

CORRECTION

There are 3.5M Swiss households... yet only 600K of those have a SIG 550 in the home.

But nearly every home is armed with one of the previously issued weapons or hunting rifles

[Leaning Right]

I wonder if the bicycling girls are really Swiss. I don't think their citizen-soldiers are allowed to be so open with their weapons.

I'd guess instead that they are two Americans going to a rifle range. Or perhaps two Israeli reservists.

And one more thing. It's my understanding that even though Swiss reservists keep their weapons at home, the ammunition is stored elsewhere. Even the Swiss are getting PC.

[dfwgator]

Operation Tannenbaum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum

[envisio]

Thanks for posting this article. I love this stuff... a big hobby of mine.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Switzerland has incredible defensive capabilities almost unique to it. To start with, about the only ground entrances to Switzerland are tunnels. Very long tunnels. And tunnels the Swiss are more than willing to dynamite if threatened by invasion. Likewise lots of very high bridges that would become impassable if blown up.

Attack by air? Not recommended, in that airborne forces would basically have to deploy with HALO jumps, on oxygen, in extremely cold and violent air.

Oh, and the Swiss are also firm believers in anti-aircraft weaponry.

Then, and only then, do you have to contend with a whole bunch of armed Swiss. Kind of the icing on the cake.

[DManA]

Also they never attack anyone.

[PieterCasparzen]

Wrong.

It’s because they let international banking have their run of the place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_International_Settlements

is the debt collection “accountant” for internatonal governments.

I know it’s so much to ask people to read source documents, but for the non-clueless, BIS, on their website

http://www.bis.org

have annual reports going back to pre-WWII that have a lot of information in them.

Speaking of WWII, during the war, an AMERICAN was in charge of BIS, and BIS was essential for German payment transfers and gold shipments during the war.

FYI, Allen Dulles was posted in Switzerland during the war.

[DoodleDawg]

A couple of things you overlooked. Every person having one of those assult rifles had to go through military training first. You cannot purchase a firearm without a permit from the government, except for single shot rifles, antique firearms or some hunting rifles. You cannot purchase more than three firearms. Private sales of guns requires the seller do a background check and establish citizenship by checking IDs. You cannot buy automatic weapons or silencers. You cannot get a carry permit unless you can prove a need to carry to the government and complete a training course. You cannot open carry a loaded rifle or any rifle unless you can show a valid reason for doing so.

All in all I'll take our laws over the Swiss ones.

[DesScorp]

I'm as pro-gun and pro-militia as anyone... and I'm a big fan of the Swiss and their model of government. But can we please dispense with the myth that Switzerland wasn't invaded by Nazis because they had guns? If Hitler really thought Switzerland was an important invasion target, he'd have taken it in a week. I'ts not like Germans and Austrians are unfamiliar with mountain warfare.

Hitler... and everyone else... left Switzerland alone for reasons that had nothing to do with guns: it's small in area, and doesn't have much in the way of natural resources compared to other tempting targets like the fertile fields of Poland or the vast, black soil steppe of Russia. Switzerland has money, but gold in banks is not enough reason to invade a country alone. Hitler would have eventually gotten around to Switzerland on general principles, but he never invaded them simply because he didn't consider them very important and didn't thing Swiss territory was of any strategic importance. His troops were needed much more elsewhere... namely that minor territory he was trying to steal called the Soviet Union.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

In point of fact, about 29% of Swiss households have a gun of some sort, compared to about 43% in the US. Also, Switzerland has a higher burglary rate, 758 per 100K population, than the US (714 per 100K).

[sten]

would definitely be at the top of my 'to be invaded' list

[BobL]

Sorry, but I cannot find the part about the BLOODBATH from SCHOOL SHOOTINGS that Mayor Blumberg PROMISES will happen when there are lots of guns around.

Maybe I skipped over it in the article?