What America can learn from Switzerland about gun ownership. (modified title)

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[Nebr FAL owner]

I think the Swiss have at least three major sub cultures namely French,German & Italian . That don’t really make for a homogenous culture. Japan has a a homogenous culture but it is a Island nation that will gladly discriminate against outsiders.

[marktwain]

“Hitler didn’t invade because his backers, the Bankers, needed access to the Swiss Banking system; it had nothing to do with terrain or the Swiss military. Switzerland provided a money laundering service to the Nazi’s and access to foriegn capital as well as a mechanism to transfer money between the members of the Axis Alliance.”

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I believe you are incorrect. Hitler ordered the troops to get ready to invade Switzerland more than once. The Generals in charge there dithered and said they could not do it. Switzerland was not invaded in large part because it was a very tough nut to crack.

[TLI]

No battery compartments = probably standard optical.

[wardaddy]

I disagree, this notion that culture and race are disconnected doesn't wash with someone like myself who lives in a high minority population area.

I also don't buy the notion that minorities...particularly blacks and latinos are at the mercy of “liberal elites”.

It makes it sound like they can't control their own destiny when in fact they do and often poorly.

Switzerland where I have been many times on business is mostly German, Italian, High Swiss and French. They speak a number of different languages but are mostly western European in origin. The foreign born are almost all non citizen guest workers mostly from Albania and Sri Lanka and are strictly regulated and are not allowed government sanctioned automatic weapons.

and in the case of the Albanians at least are responsible for a disproportionate number of crimes more so than the indigenous “Swiss”.

some races and ethnicities have at least in my rather lengthy experience a greater propensity for all sorts of behavior from illegitimacy, personal violence, greed, theft, dishonesty, inability to govern, abuse of women, polygamy, lack of fathers, and so forth and it is often evident worldwide not just here.

to try to more innocuously explain all that with just the culture argument alone doesn't explain it any better than just the race argument alone does.

why?

a question for the ages but I can't ignore what I see and live even if it is contrary to our noble sensibilities today

what used to be called White Man's Burden has now become White Man's Required List of Excuses Why Minorities Fail and How it's White Man's Fault

btw cultural homogenization is almost always race based ...even here

[MSF BU]

...that’s a pretty damning pair of maps.

[Travis McGee]

All excuses and rationalizations aside, the crime data maps posted by Blood of Tyrants back at 25 tells the objective story.

[Lexinom]

So the one group needs some gun safety training, and the other needs to learn not to strangle people. ;)

("Can't we all just get along?!")

[Snurple]

Blacks feel rejected by the Swiss

[Straight Vermonter]

I do my mountain climbing near an area where General Dynamics test fires their vulcan guns. The first time I heard that going off all the hair on the back of my next stood up. The echoes make it sound like they are everywhere.