http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/24/switzerland.gun.army.referendum/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
The Anti's do not just reside in the U.S. They are also in Switzerland. In 2007 they passed an ammo ban for homes and now they are trying to get militia guns removed from homes. It is estimated that 1.5 million military weapons are in the homes of the Swiss military and militia.
"Switzerland's armed forces consist of just a few thousand permanent full-time staff, with the rest essentially a militia.
Service in the militia is compulsory for men aged between 19 and 31 and in between call-ups they store their weapons at home. There are currently around 220,000 conscripts."
The reasons promoted for this ban--to help reduce suicides. Yes, that's what they said. Not a murder problem, but suicides. In total, murders and suicides, 300 people are killed each year. Washington D.C. has a minute percentage of that number of guns and had at least 3 times that number in just murders last year.
Read the article. If the U.S. was in such "good" shape, there wouldn't be any anti's.
