Jim

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be

to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows

that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races

to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so

doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply

of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the

overthrow of any sovereignty."
- Adolf Hitler

The real meaning of Gun control.

I've only visited Switzerland once but what I quickly came away with was... the Swiss are a highly educated group of people who value freedom but also care about their neighbors. I think Education is the key.

Interesting country and people the Swiss. Four official languages, they use a form of direct democracy for part of their government, with nation wide "town" meetings, and universal male military service.

That military service ends up with everyone being a member of the reserve, and they must maintain their personal weapon, do a summer camp. You note the man points to four different generations of the family military guns in the video.

Their military policy is to mount a small unit defense upon mobilization. Helps to have a strong defensive terrain, but no one has felt ready to take them on in recent times.

They were pretty bad dudes in antiquity also.. I hear tale the Pope still likes to keep a few of those Swiss fellers around.

Yeah they use the 550... Badarse weapon..

From what I understood they have all been under som e pretty serious training the past 5-6 years, weapons & tactics, CQB, Martial Arts.. Looks like they are trying to make them 'real' body guards.

Yes they have but after the murder-suicide of the commandant and his gay lover a few years back they have been kickin it up a notch.

Gun Control in Texas:

You stay the fuck of my property and I'll contol myself and not shoot you in the ass.

I am THE Texas Outlaw and I approve of this message.


And If you ain't down with that, I got two words for you....

New York City isn't a fair example--the gun control laws there are substantially stricter than Canada's... not to mention that there's a bigger population than all but one Canadian province, crammed into an area smaller than some cornfields. It's just always going to be a statistical exception.

Doc M,

NYC doesn't come off all that bad, worse than the smaller Canadian cities, but look how much better than the other American cities. And no the "Sullivan Act" (or its successor) is no where near as stringent as Canadian gun laws.

I would have to really jump through a lot of hoops to get a hand gun here, and it would have to be kept under lock and key, as would its ammo, and you need a specific permit to move it from storage say to a range for shooting. And no deviations in the transportation route to or from would be allowed, or be subject to arrest. There is no such thing for the common man as a carry permit.

If i possessed a hand gun, and someone broke into my house and was armed, I would have to unlock the gun cabinet, then unlock the trigger guard, then load the gun before i could use it. LOL

Luckily this is not a scenario that is likely to happen here, unless I happen to be a drug dealer, and they don't seem to care much about the gun laws. Seized guns in the States are generally auctioned off, and thus go back into the system, unless they are patently illegal like a Browning 50 cal MG, here they destroyed.

The really big difference is here if your really obnoxious brother-in-law takes the turkey drumstick off your plate at Thanksgiving dinner you might punch him in the nose or go at him with the carving knife, in Buffalo or Detroit you go get the pistol out of the night stand in your bedroom and have at him from across the room. Similar scenario if you catch your wife in bed with the next door neighbor.