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In reply to the discussion: What in the hell is wrong with people.A kid back from Afganistan is shot at his own party [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)not a direct cause and effect of America being awash with largely unregulated guns having a higher number of homicides per year in all of Canada put together than just across the border in the city of Buffalo, New York alone. . In Switzerland people by citizenship are members of the reserve military force. Also the dynamics of a highly homoogeneous society than a highly chaotic society like America. I happen to live in a U.S. Territory where there is a very high poverty rate, a high rate of alcoholism and methamphetamine use. Fortunately, gun ownership is greatly restricted and consequently a very, very low homicide rate. Anything higher than a 22 is basically forbidden. We know what will happen if some day the crazies from the NRA try to interfere and manage to overturn the will of the people and we become as awash with guns as the U.S. mainland. Everyone knows that the gun culture of a America and its lack of a rational policy is the primary cause of the highest homicide rate in the advanced industrialized world. To deny this is disingenuous to the extreme..