School shooting in Switzerland

[Votto]

Just kidding. Of course, I'm trying to make a point, not be funny, for in Switzerland it is compulsary for it's citizens to own automatic and semi-automatic weapons and be trained to use them, for they have no standing army. Switzerland had the highest gun per citizen ratio, and they are weapons of war, yet the citizens are able to control themselves with these weapons. Why?

This is why progressives insist that everything become a one size fits all mentality. After all, to have competing ideologies that are successful, is a threat to their own ideology. This is why no one must be given a chance to put other ideologies into practice.

Just imagine if the US were this way once again. So instead of paying trillions of dollars for Obama to wreak havok on the world via the military complex, the citizens would be the ones defending the country and not be spent into the ground and sending their children off to die overseas to do it everytime the UN wants the US to do their dirty work for them.

 

[WillowTree]

 

[Ravi]

Japan has very strict gun laws and a lower homicide by gun rate that Switzerland so your point is stupid.

 

[Votto]

Japan has very strict gun laws and a lower homicide by gun rate that Switzerland so your point is stupid.

My point is that Switzerland does not have people shooting up schools, which is the motivation to lock them all up in the US. The point is, is that what is going on here is of cultural significance and has nothing to do with guns. There is no getting rid of guns in the US, so get used to it. If they did, they would have a civil war on their collective hands, so we best understand why this is a problem all of a sudden after 200 years plus of gun ownership.

However, the federal government only knows three things, ban it, tax it, or throw more money at it.

Idiots.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Gee. If we didn't know better, we would be led to believe that the Swiss don't have any gun control laws at all. Way to tell half the story, OP.

 

[Votto]

Gee. If we didn't know better, we would be led to believe that the Swiss don't have any gun control laws at all. Way to tell half the story, OP.

So you tell us. What gun laws prevent its citizens from shooting up schools using their automatic and semi-automatic weapons?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Why would I do that? Did I make that claim? You seem a bit defensive.

Why don't YOU list all of the regulations that Swiss gun owners have to adhere to that would piss you the fuck off if they were made into law here. Also....tell us how you would be OK with all the pansy-ass liberals in CA being responsible for guarding our Western border if we move to that citizen's militia that you seem to be advocating.

 

[CaféAuLait]

Why would I do that? Did I make that claim? You seem a bit defensive.

Why don't YOU list all of the regulations that Swiss gun owners have to adhere to that would piss you the fuck off if they were made into law here. Also....tell us how you would be OK with all the pansy-ass liberals in CA being responsible for guarding our Western border if we move to that citizen's militia that you seem to be advocating.

Their regs are not unlike ours:

To purchase a firearm in a commercial shop, one needs to have a Waffenerwerbsschein (weapon acquisition permit). A permit allows the purchase of three firearms. Everyone over the age of 18 who is not psychiatrically disabled (such as having had a history of endangering his own life or the lives of others) or identified as posing security problems, and who has a clean criminal record (requires a Criminal Records Bureau check) can request such a permit.[citation needed]
To buy a gun from an individual, no permit is needed, but the seller is expected to establish a reasonable certainty that the purchaser will fulfill the above-mentioned conditions (usually done through a Criminal Records Bureau check). The participants in such a transaction are required to prepare a written contract detailing the identities of both vendor and purchaser, the weapon's type, manufacturer, and serial number. The law requires the written contract to be kept for ten years by the buyer and seller. The seller is also required to see some official ID from the purchaser, for such sales are only allowed to Swiss nationals and foreigners with a valid residence permit, with the exception of those foreigners that come from certain countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Albania, Algeria), to whom such sales are not allowed even if they do have a residence permit. Foreigners without a residence permit or from countries on the ban list must ask for a special permit.[citation needed]
After turning 18, any individual can buy singleshot or semiautomatic long arms (breech-loading or muzzle-loading) without a permit (so-called "free arms"). Likewise, members of a recognized rifle association do not need a buying permit for purchasing antique repeaters, and hunters do not need one for buying typical hunting rifles.[citation needed]
Basically, the sale of automatic firearms, selective fire weapons and certain accessories such as sound suppressors ("silencers") is forbidden (as is the sale of certain disabled automatic firearms which have been identified as easily restored to fully automatic capability). The purchase of such items is however legal with a special permit issued by cantonal police. The issuance of such a permit requires additional requirements to be met, e.g. the possession of a specific gun locker.[citation needed]
Most types of ammunition are available for commercial sale, including full metal jacket bullet calibres for military-issue weapons; hollow point rounds are only permitted for hunters. Ammunition sales are registered only at the point of sale by recording the buyer's name in a bound book

Gun politics in Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Japan has very strict gun laws and a lower homicide by gun rate that Switzerland so your point is stupid.

Almost as stupid as yours.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Gee. If we didn't know better, we would be led to believe that the Swiss don't have any gun control laws at all. Way to tell half the story, OP.

So you tell us. What gun laws prevent its citizens from shooting up schools using their automatic and semi-automatic weapons?

So if every household in, say, Chicago's inner city had an assault weapon, things would get better there?

 

[Votto]

Gee. If we didn't know better, we would be led to believe that the Swiss don't have any gun control laws at all. Way to tell half the story, OP.

So you tell us. What gun laws prevent its citizens from shooting up schools using their automatic and semi-automatic weapons?

So if every household in, say, Chicago's inner city had an assault weapon, things would get better there?

Funny you should mention Chicago. They have some of the toughest gun laws yet they seem to be the most gun violent.

It is my contention that the problem lies in the morality of the cuture. It should then be of no surprise that a populace sold out to the democratic party and who espouse their values are in such a state of confusion. In fact, they elected crazy Jesse Jackson Jr. to Congress, even though he was too nuts to campaign in the state. He inexplicably won anyway simply because of his party and who his daddy was.