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You're not wrong, but Switzerland has a much less violent culture than America does.
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Still one of the highest murder rates in the world, though. And I read somewhere that they've been restricting gun ownership significantly in the last few years.
I thought that this was a good point. It's something my brother in law wrote on Facebook, linking to an article written by Australia's (Conservative) former prime minister.
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After Australia experienced the terrible Port Arthur gun massacre in 1996, the government banned most of the guns in this country. The gun lobby was very upset, but it ultimately lost the battle. These national gun laws have proven beneficial. Research published in 2010 in the American Journal of Law and Economics found that firearm homicides, in Australia, dropped 59 per cent between 1995 and 2006. Researchers at Harvard University in 2011 revealed that in the 18 years prior to the 1996 Australian laws, there were 13 gun massacres (four or more fatalities) in Australia, resulting in 102 deaths. There have been none in that category since the Port Arthur laws.
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...#ixzz2F3n19OQL
And then there's this:
