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Countries that do this, not only have an extremely low incidence of Crime, but their Citizens get training in The Military and become far more employable. They also receive benefits like tuition assistance etc. which helps them further their education.
Rather than retreat from the issue of a lone lefty loon here and there who like to shoot unarmed kids, or concert goers, or Congressmen at a softball game, we need to confront the issue with proven solutions.
For those that want to know and cannot do the math using the figures cited below, gun homicides in The US Per Capita are only 0.00005%.
The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works | TIME.com
Switzerland trails behind only the U.S, Yemen and Serbia in the number of guns per capita; between 2.3 million and 4.5 million military and private firearms are estimated to be in circulation in a country of only 8 million people. Yet, despite the prevalence of guns, the violent-crime rate is low: government figures show about 0.5 gun homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. By comparison, the U.S rate in the same year was about 5 firearm killings per 100,000 people, according to a 2011 U.N. report.
Unlike some other heavily armed nations, Switzerland’s gun ownership is deeply rooted in a sense of patriotic duty and national identity. Weapons are kept at home because of the long-held belief that enemies could invade tiny Switzerland quickly, so every soldier had to be able to fight his way to his regiment’s assembly point. (Switzerland was at risk of being invaded by Germany during World War II but was spared, historians say, because every Swiss man was armed and trained to shoot.)
Rather than retreat from the issue of a lone lefty loon here and there who like to shoot unarmed kids, or concert goers, or Congressmen at a softball game, we need to confront the issue with proven solutions.
For those that want to know and cannot do the math using the figures cited below, gun homicides in The US Per Capita are only 0.00005%.
The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works | TIME.com
Switzerland trails behind only the U.S, Yemen and Serbia in the number of guns per capita; between 2.3 million and 4.5 million military and private firearms are estimated to be in circulation in a country of only 8 million people. Yet, despite the prevalence of guns, the violent-crime rate is low: government figures show about 0.5 gun homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. By comparison, the U.S rate in the same year was about 5 firearm killings per 100,000 people, according to a 2011 U.N. report.
Unlike some other heavily armed nations, Switzerland’s gun ownership is deeply rooted in a sense of patriotic duty and national identity. Weapons are kept at home because of the long-held belief that enemies could invade tiny Switzerland quickly, so every soldier had to be able to fight his way to his regiment’s assembly point. (Switzerland was at risk of being invaded by Germany during World War II but was spared, historians say, because every Swiss man was armed and trained to shoot.)