Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd


The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (103) |
Author: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝🐝 HONORARY
SHREWD
  😊 😞

Number: of 86277 
Subject: Re: You are your own first responder
Date: 03/29/23 10:49 PM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 3
Any one ever wonder why Switerzerland doesn't have the highest rate of mass shootings in the world? They have the 4th highest amount of guns/capita and every military conscript takes his/her weapon home to be stored there.

No, not true. Used to be, but it's not any more, changed in 2007. It's true for people in the military, but that is a small fraction of the population at any given time. And if you want your weapon upon leaving you have to buy it. Everyone is required for military service, so there is an automatic gun safety and use course, and if you have a private weapon it must be registered with the government.

More to the point, the US has twice as many guns per capita in private ownership, but Switzerland is not far behind in deaths from guns. But unlike the US, where we lead in homicides (Mexico is 1st! Yay!), Switzerland leads most of Europe in domestic homicides, accidental and suicide deaths by gun.

Switzerland does not have open carry or even concealed carry with only minor exceptions.

The NRA likes to point to Switzerland, but they only tell part of the story, when the whole story is more interesting and argues against a lot of what they're telling you.u

Not the best example, but an easy one I found.
BBC: Switzerland guns: Living with firearms the Swiss way
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to Goofyhoofy here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 86,214 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (103) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community