I remember years ago on a bus in Switzerland a man got on carrying his assault rifle. To me it felt very unusual but the locals all ignored him completely. At the time in the UK you never saw guns unless you went to an army display of some kind. We see more guns now usually at major airports. And gun crime in the UK seems to rising, we've just had a series of teenage shootings in London.



>>The impression I got was that every man, woman, and child in Switzerland would be mobilized and armed if necessary to defend the country...
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>Each male (I don't think female yet) has an assault rife stored at home and are required to practice shooting periodically. These things look like a heavy cousin of an M16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stgw_90.jpg
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>Switzerland is a really good example of how having a large number of weapons in homes doesn't lead to increase gun crime and gun deaths. Don't tell the liberals that.