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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Switzerland and Israel both seem to have a lot of guns but not much gun violence. It seems their situation needs to be looked at to see why and how it apparently works so well.
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Their situation can be described as an external threat to small bodies of like minded individuals with similar cultural backrounds.
For Switzerland, its a cultural tradition of neutrality enforced by bristling defenses and military traditions going back forever, and for Israel, if they didn't arm everyone on the map, they would have been wiped off of it long ago.
There is no way we, as a huge varied powerful country with thousands of different cultural traditions and viewpoints either realistically can, or really needs to act in the same way.
We have more guns than anyone in the world though, and our needs for them are less imperative than either of those countries. How many people here have over a dozen weapons? all for apparently home defense, and all more likely to shoot or be shot by a loved one with them instead than actually defend their home.
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