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[quote=Anonymous]Re Switzerland, it appears both active and reserve while enrolled keep issue weapons at home. Some have ammunition, some don’t depending on duty assignments (e.g., airport guard duty). Rifles get full auto removed and are subject to ordinary restrictions upon leaving reserves.

But this entire line of reasoning ignores the vast cultural differences between Switzerland (and pretty much anyplace else) and the US. Switzerland is historically an extremely homogenous country, very conservative, with a great deal of emphasis on fitting in, being a productive part of society, getting along, etc. (although this is changing with more recent immigration).

The United States has a permanent (or at least highly persistent) frequently criminal, subculture that appears not to accept the values of the majority of society regarding many things, including criminal behavior and violence. Unlike many (most?) other countries, these crime prone individuals are not held to account and removed from society (by imprisonment, ostracism, or other means) but seem instead to be protected as a part of the political courting of larger groups to which they nominally might belong, but upon whom they frequently prey.  The composition of this subculture is not static, but its existence seems to defy all efforts to move its members into productive social roles. Switzerland and Europe (and other places) may also have groups who traditionally engage in criminality, but nothing on the order of what is seen in the US.

It is a delusional fantasy to think that any set of laws (including the many ones that already exist but are not vigorously enforced) is going to attenuate the criminal violence that is the hallmark of such a subculture. People who obey laws don’t engage in psychopathic criminality. People who do engage in that don’t follow any laws, not even the requirement to pay for public transportation or goods from w store. And the underground/black market/drug and contraband infrastructure that already exists within the criminal subculture guarantees that attempting to disarm criminals by depriving decent people of their own rights is bound to fail, leaving the decent people without the means of self defense and the criminals likely even better armed than before. [/quote]

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