>gun-related crime is right up there with the U.S. (see the graph in my link to Tracy.....)
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>Those "Gun Facts" people are being a bit naughty. ;-) Swiss figures for "Intentional firearm deaths" include quite a high firearm suicide rate- not because firearms cause suicides but because there's an available firearm in practically every home. If you look at "murder" figures, which is the more useful stat, it's a different story: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita . Switzerland has three times the rate of New Zealand which also has fairly liberal gun laws, but less than a quarter of the US rate.

What I find most interesting is the overall Total Crimes Per Capita:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita

# 1 Dominica: 113.822 per 1,000 people
# 2 New Zealand: 105.881 per 1,000 people
# 3 Finland: 101.526 per 1,000 people
# 4 Denmark: 92.8277 per 1,000 people
# 5 Chile: 88.226 per 1,000 people
# 6 United Kingdom: 85.5517 per 1,000 people
# 7 Montserrat: 80.3982 per 1,000 people
# 8 United States: 80.0645 per 1,000 people
# 9 Netherlands: 79.5779 per 1,000 people
# 10 South Africa: 77.1862 per 1,000 people
# 11 Germany: 75.9996 per 1,000 people
# 12 Canada: 75.4921 per 1,000 people
# 13 Norway: 71.8639 per 1,000 people
# 14 France: 62.1843 per 1,000 people
# 15 Seychelles: 52.9265 per 1,000 people
# 16 Hungary: 44.9763 per 1,000 people
# 17 Estonia: 43.3601 per 1,000 people
# 18 Czech Republic: 38.2257 per 1,000 people
# 19 Italy: 37.9633 per 1,000 people
# 20 Switzerland: 36.1864 per 1,000 people