<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Technotranscendence</b> <<a href="mailto:neptune@superlink.net">neptune@superlink.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Don't we have at least one society where that is a requirement:<br>Switzerland? Isn't each Swiss household required to have a gun?</blockquote><div><br>They are required to have military assault rifles, the storage of both gun and ammunition being very closely regulated. Handguns in Switzerland are also relatively closely regulated. Despite this, Switzerland has the second highest handgun ownership rate *and* the second highest handgun murder rate in the industrialised world:
<br><br><a href="http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-switzerland.htm">http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-switzerland.htm</a><br><br>You will note the 1 - 2 orders of magnitude difference in the handgun murder rate in most countries other than Switzerland compared to the United States.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div><br></div><br>