The new anti-gun-control meme: The US should be more like Switzerland.

[flamin lib]

9. A follow up to the OP

Switzerland guns: Living with firearms the Swiss way

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912

"I do as the army advises and I keep the barrel separately from my pistol," (the serving officer) explains seriously. "I keep the barrel in the basement so if anyone breaks into my apartment and finds the gun, it's useless to them."

He shakes out the gun holster. "And we don't get bullets any more," he adds. "The Army doesn't give ammunition now - it's all kept in a central arsenal." This measure was introduced by Switzerland's Federal Council in 2007.
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"Forty-three per cent of homicides are domestic related and 90% of those homicides are carried out with guns," he says.
"But over the last 20 years, now that the majority of soldiers don't have ammunition at home, we have seen a decrease in gun violence and a dramatic decrease in gun-related suicides. Today we see maybe 200 gun suicides per year and it used to be 400, 20 years ago. "
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"I'm always amazed how the National Rifle Association in America points to Switzerland - they make it sound as if it was part of southern Texas!"

Ow! That S Texas remark stings.

If all pistol owners kept the barrel separately from the action I'd have no problem with everybody having one and it seems, from the domestic homocide rates, that having a gun in the house is just as dangerous in Switzerland as it is here in the US.

Gun ownership in Switzerland is not a simple thing. Ya' can't just go to Craigs List and search for "things that go bang".

The cut & paste only gives a hint at the flavor of the article, it has to be read in full.