"There is a lack there," admits Mr Suter. "The systems are not connected. But today they are really on their way to fitting all the information together, and there is not a single legal gun here which is unregistered. But a national register does not necessarily avoid tragedy - 100% control you cannot organise. It's impossible."
Yet despite the prevalence of firearms, violent gun-related street crime is extremely rare in Switzerland.Despite? I don't think this word means what the author thinks it does.
Hermann Suter, vice-president of the Swiss lobbying group Pro Tell, is infuriated by calls that the Swiss military should give up their guns and store them in a central arsenal.This is the central intent of the second amendment, in this respect getting more like Switzerland would be a winner. Swiss Democracy is much older than our own and they have the method down pat.
"It is a question of trust between the state and the citizen. The citizen is not just a citizen, he is also a soldier, " he reminds me. "The gun at home is the best way to avoid dictatorships - only dictators take arms away from the citizens."
But one seventh is definitely better.
I am glad to hear that it is difficult to buy a gun.
But unless there is a National Gun Registry, we have what anyone with any knowledge of gun laws in the First Word Countries would call lax gun laws.
Yes this I like about them.
The Swiss require gun owners to be responsible.
The Swiss require guns to be registered.Even in the article you brought it was stated that the registration is a new thing and is impossible to do a complete job of . The murder rate in Switzerland was low an hundred years before their regulations tightened up.
The Swiss have ONE SEVENTH the number of shootings we do.We probably do have things to learn from them, but I note that there, as here, massacres happen more in gun free zones than in any other sort of venue. Lets not learn what we wish they were instead of what they are.
Yes , something that would never happen if the US had tougher laws, why not?
The reason that there are so many guns in Mexico is that Americans, with lax gun laws, sell them to make a buck.
I know exponentially more about damned near everything than you.
The Federalist Papers have no real standing in law.
The progress and welfare of the people of this country are much more important to me than the constitution.
Yeah, they thought slavery was really nifty as well.
You are the one that brings up the Federalist Papers, which have nothing whatever to say about the matter at hand, and therefore you are the one deflecting.
No, we don't.
If we did, nine people would have been alive today.
Why not enact the laws that the Swiss have, and see if six-sevenths of gun deaths are avoided?
It would not turn this into a "Third World Country".
Switzerland is clearly a first world country which has its share of gun nuts and far fewer gun deaths.
There are no accurate statistics on lives saved with guns.
That is just horseshit.
There are no accurate statistics on lives saved with guns.
That is just horseshit.
That is only when you are armed and properly dangerous.
I doubt that is most of the time.
Lakewood Church told KHOU-TV that a number of their volunteer ushers are also law enforcement officials. Those officials are apparently armed during the services so that they can react to anything like what happened Sunday.
Eaglin said he's thankful for the quick response of the Lakewood Church security.
"For a second there I started thinking about the church shooting that happened and I was thinking 'Oh God something bad is about to happen' but they were real quick," he said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/29/pastor-joel-osteen-heckled-lakewood-church/29469585/
MORE GUNS IN LAW ABIDING HANDS = MORE LIVES SAVED IN THE UNITED STATES THAN TAKEN BY A GUN
And hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I have to save a life, since that's not a goal. But if I am, at least I'll be ready and have the appropriate tool for it
If guys like Zimmerman, a freelance self-appointed vigilante, is a law abiding citizen, then this is just rot.
As it stands, any nut can get a gun, and the police cannot even trace it, because unlike in Switzerland, there is no registry to search.
The more guns there are, period, the more people will get shot, period. People die, their guns remain, and many will fall into the hands of all sorts of nutjobs.
It=f you cannot understand this, you are too fucking stupid to dress yourself.
Zimmerman has the right to live, but unarmed.
God did not write the Constitution, you insufferable twit.
Sacred? Do you WORSHIP gun ownership?
Zimmerman has the right to live, but unarmed. Wait and see, he is not likely to die of natural causes.
It would have been better off for both Zimmerman and Martin had Zimmerman just kept on a-driving. No laws were being broken, he had no reason to bother Martin.Neither did Mr Martin have any justification for beating Mr. Zimmerman this is not even. bothering someone with unwelcome presence is an order of magnitude less malicious than is an attempt to crack a persons skull.
Zimmerman was the older, and therefore he should have been the most responsible.Even so. he was never outside his rights to walk , not outside his rights to speak. Why would Mr. Martin be within his rights to throw Mr. Zimmerman down and beat him even a little?
The fault is not evenly distributed , both had cell phones , both felt suspicious, one of them called 911, the other seems to have set up an ambush.
Both of these guys behaved like morons, of course.
It is never a good idea to kill anyone. There was no war going on there.Which one are you referring to?
Another life lost because of some ijit and his gun.
Another life lost because of some ijit and his gun.
The particular neighborhood where Zimmerman lived did NOT have neighborhood watch and Zimmerman was basically a freelance vigilante.
I see anyone doing something suspicious in my neighborhood, I will not stop the car or get out oif it, and I will just call the cops.
Zimmerman and Martin would both be better off had this fool stayed in his damned car. I am tired of talking about this, you are too damn dumb to bother with.
Here is how "calling the police works:
(1) call the police.
(2) wait for them to arrive.
Zimmerman did not do this.
The dispatcher told him not to confront Martin.
And then he did.
Both Zimmerman and Martin would be better off today had he simply followed this suggestion.
There is no manual to follow, when calling the police. Point is that Zimmerman did. He was also attacked. Without his firearm to defend himself he may be the one who died at the hands of his attacker. And the Judicial system supported that scenario
There is no evidence that Mr Zimmerman attacked Mr Martin .
There may be a mistake on both sides , but this is not coming out even.
If I remember correctly, the only 'evidence' of Zimmerman being attacked were some injuries and his own statement...no one saw this alleged attack, or could say whether or not Zimmerman himself initiated the altercation. The only other direct witness was, conveniently for Zimmerman, dead.
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There is also no evidence he did not attack Martin. And no witnesses to substantiate either version. Barring that, the jury was stuck having to accept Zimmerman's version.
I support gun rights. I support 'stand your ground'. Most of all, I support telling the whole truth, not slanting it to support some agenda.
Look: had this fool just stayed in his fucking truck and driven home and left Martin alone, Martin would be alive, and Zimmerman would not be leading the rather miserable life that is now his lot. He did not need his damned gun to drive around and observe the neighborhood. He was the wrong guy to do this anyway, because he was a hothead and a dipshit.
Martin was also a hothead and a dipshit, but younger so he had a better excuse.
Perhaps is Zimmerman was not armed, he would have done the right thing and stayed in his moving truck.
Martin was wearing a hoodie. I was not implying anything. ON TV the bad guys and neighborhood thugs generally wear hoodies. He had it pulled up because it was raining, I suppose.
I would have just driven on by.
But both of these fools were looking for trouble, and both if them found it.
You actually walk up to people and ask them what they are doing on YOUR turf?
That is precisely what he did.
Maybe he did not use the word "turf".
If Zimmerman was such a fucking great guy doing the right thing, then why isnlt he still out there on patrol, saving the world from crazed Negroes in hoodies?
Yeah, blame Al Sharpton..
Why not blame Farrakhan as well?
You don't go out patrolling, you just like shooting your stupid mouth off.