In Switzerland, gun ownership is high but It’s also full of mainly Swiss people.
Because they aren’t constantly being driven insane by 24/7 mass mind control news channels and/ or lunatic leftist teachers would be my guess.
The problem arises when insane people are in charge of deciding who is sane enough to own a weapon...
Switzerland, the most armed, and polite, society
They don’t let feral yutes have rifles?
They don’t have any MK Ultra program?
Arguments that Swiss gun owners are well vetted by their military service seem rather irrelevant since about 81-89% of those who commit gun crimes in the US did not purchase their weapons legally—thus what good does vetting for a legal purchase do anyway? Whatever the problem is, it has to do with why there are crooks who want to get their hands on a fire-arm and commit crime with it and not anything to do with vetting legal purchase of fire arms.
What the gun laws do in Switzerland, in a way, is the same kind of thing that they do in Japan, which is to reinforce the existing social order. The laws help integrate people into the larger world of the community. That is one of the most important functions of the militia, and why the Swiss are resistant to abolishing the militia, even though, with the end of the cold war, there is no realistic threat to national security. The Swiss want to keep the militia as a very important socializing institution in the nation. Marksmanship is one of the things that brings the generations together. Dad will clean the rifle at the kitchen table and take Junior shooting at the target range. That is one of the things that keeps Junior happily occupied with the family as opposed to getting in trouble. What I think Switzerland and Japan collectively suggest is that the issue is, not how many guns are there in the society but, how guns are viewed in the society and how they fit into the overall system of socializing individuals in the society.
In other words, guns in Switzerland help reinforce the collectivism in their culture, while guns in America help reinforce the individualism in our culture. A gun in Switzerland helps people identify with being part of the collective Swiss culture. A gun in America helps people identify with being part of the individualist American culture.
Kopel's book is worth it's weight in gold.
Culture matters.
Britain is an even better example.
Before 1919 there was for all intents and purposes no gun control at all. Machine guns, cannons etc. could be purchased by anyone. At the same time they had almost no crime at all. I mean very near zero armed robberies.
Now they have extreme gun control and among the highest crime rates of all first world nations.
Their govt doesn’t do false flag shootings in order to try to outlaw guns.
US has 40 times the population.
One there is equivalent to 40 here.
In Switzerland, gun ownership is high but “Diversity ain’t our strength”
White? Homogeneous? Very strict immigration laws that are enforced? Christian? A feeling of belonging to a great society and a responsibility to keep it that way for your children?
My Swiss buddy said at one time everyone who was of age was required to have a gun at home in case the militia was required. Those like him considered this a fringe benefit and even used these gun for other purposes. Those who were anti-gun broke the guns down and kept the pieces in different parts of the house, so they were in compliance with the law but no one could accidentally find and use their gun.
It’s a mystery.
Why?
No racial diversity and never mentioned to be an asset.
I’ve heard it’s because EVERYONE has a gun there. So the bad guys figure that no matter what they do, the other guy will have a gun. Have also heard that gun ownership is mandatory there, but don’t know if that’s true.
No ghettos full of Amish?