>Not wanting to interrupt the debate ;-) but if you want to talk about bearing arms, you need to look at who has the most worth defending as well. The very latest peer-reviewed study puts the top 5 countries in the world for quality of life as France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. 4 of those countries have far more rigid gun control than the US. The other makes it a requirement that male citizens receive military training and retain their firearm. That country has low crime rates,

You mean Switzerland?
Is so I don't know about crime in general - but gun-related crime is right up there with the U.S. (see the graph in my link to Tracy.....)

> as do its neighbors in the top 5 with far stricter gun regulations. The point would seem to be that firearm regulations don't make as much difference to crime/quality of life as people seem to think: clearly other qualities matter more.