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Canned response: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland#Gun_crime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland#Gun... Anyway, the

Canned response: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland#Gun_crime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland#Gun... Anyway, the debate will become irrelevant in a few years when they're printable (I suppose they'll try ammunition control instead). So will a lot of other things. The economy is about to change again, probably as large as a change as the internet has brought.

vhf 14y ago
That's not a response... http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/switzerland_for_the_record/european_records/Switzerland_s_troubling_record_of_suicide.html?cid=8301804 http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/switzerland_for_the_rec... Switzerland holds the European record for rate of gun suicide, and record of guns per capita. Suicide is the leading cause of death for people younger than 35. There's clearly a problem with the Swiss legal obligation of having a gun at home. (Mandatory for every conscript soldier, i.e. almost every swiss man, including me.) I do believe that if I was not obligated to have a gun at home, I would not willfully buy one and thus would not have access to one.
- tlear 14y ago
  Just so you don't randomly decide to kill yourself? If you want to kill yourself you will lack of a gun is not an issue.
- PostOnce 14y ago
  Conversely, South Korea has absurdly strict gun laws (i.e., even hunters must keep their rifles at the police station and not at home during the off-season) and almost no-one owns a gun. Despite that, South Korea has possibly the highest suicide rate in the world. see also: Lithuania