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Lots of other countries have firearms and don’t have school shootings. Switzerland and Israel come to mind.
by justanorherhack 4y ago
Lots of other countries have firearms and don’t have school shootings. Switzerland and Israel come to mind.
- netfortius 4y ago
- mrguyorama 4y agoBoth those countries require everyone to experience military service, where such a gun is used as a tool to kill. There's much less of a "gun culture" in those countries because guns aren't cool, everyone has used one, everyone is familiar, everyone understands what they are for, namely protection of the country as a whole. If the alternative to making guns much harder to access is to conscript everyone in the country for a few years to try and beat the gun culture out of them, good freakin luck
- nothingisbad 4y agoPer wikipedia[0], the US has an estimated 120 guns per 100 citizens. Switzerland, the number is 27.6, Israel the number is 6.7. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...