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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_isqiido wrote

Reply to comment by tacoflavored789 in 11 shot in Richmond within one week by Charlesinrichmond

Kind of interesting how rare it is considering that. And how rare it is in Switzerland considering how everybody has to have an assault rifle

Almost makes you think that guns are a red herring and something else is going on

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tacoflavored789 t1_isqmk2n wrote

There is no red herring.

The reason Swiss have lots of guns is because they HAVE to go into the military and are issued a gun. Oh, would you look at that? Gun training. Something America does not have.

So you are making a gun control argument by bringing up Switzerland.

Crazy how when majority gun owners are trained to use them safely and are properly filtered don’t go around shooting daycares

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bruxalle t1_issqo1b wrote

Their ammunition is also heavily audited by the government and kept in a military facility, not peoples homes. As usual, Charles is talking out of his ass.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_ist5cj7 wrote

yes, exactly my point. It's not the guns that are the issue. The very definition of a red herring

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dreadpiraterobertzzz t1_isv6voh wrote

The reason there are less gun deaths in Switzerland has less to do with gun control laws and more to do with the attitude that people in Switzerland have towards guns. Laws do not work if people are unwilling to follow them. People in Switzerland view gun ownership as a privilege and not a right like in America. It is a necessary evil to protect the nation from foreign invaders. The Swiss do not have a gun culture. They do not fetishize firearms the way people do in the US. Also Switzerland does not have concentrated poverty the way the US does. This concentrated poverty is what leads to most of these gun homicides. Gun control laws can help the problem but they are a bandaid solution at best. The root of the problem is cultural.

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