>>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.

I think it is in the mentality. This is still the wild west.