US has become spawning ground for a sizable proportion of "Charles Manson" types due to prescription drugs used incorrectly and abused and other means of psychosis. The Tate-Labianca murders were comitted with knives. Actually, these acts are arguing for more self-protection by means of weapons possession for ordinay citizens, not less.
We don't have easy access to guns. In this country, until you commit a crime, you are assumed to be a law abiding citizen. That's the way it's suppose to be.
Exactly, I wonder how many shots the AZ shooter would have gotten off if a few citizens in the crowd were armed?
someone please correct me if i mis-state something here. but in switzerland, don't all males have to serve some years in the military? dont they all get guns at one point in their life, and those guns are stored at home? how has that affected the gun crime in switzerland? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
Unlike Arizona, which is famously tough on crime, Switzerland is relatively soft on crime, and that's why the Swiss per capita rate of violent crime is so much higher than Arizona's.