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

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20. "The biggest difference between the US and Switzerland? How they think about guns:"

Okay, so let's talk about national defense policy. The Swiss do not have an expeditionary military. America does. In Progressive circles we refer to it as the Military Industrial Complex and it's generally considered a bad thing.

America is a resource-rich patch of spacious land. It would be worth invading. If you don't want the MIC but you want to keep your home and your freedoms you will have to fight for it.

(I don't know. Some people seem over-burdened by "freedumb" and seem to resent the idea. Maybe they're better off serving a foreign imperialist power.)

In order to fight for it you will have to possess the means to fight and make it so painful for an invader to control that the cost is too great. If you don't have aircraft carriers you're going to have to make sure 100 million people can shoot like soldiers.

Do you want to turn 100 million people into militia?

I'm willing to give it a whirl in order to get out from under the MIC but that means the control fetishists are going to have to get over themselves and see to it that MOAR GUNZ! are put into the hands of the populace, not less -- and lots of training too -- like, from high school on up.

Usually thoughts like that give Controllers the vapors.

The problem in the US is not the guns themselves but the gun-culture. US-culture has less social obstacles and mediators that disencourage selfish (e.g.: committing a violent crime) behavior.

I have to agree with his conclusion: To me as a foreigner, it seems as if the US treats it as a basic right to become a celebrity.
"Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to get the privileged treatment you know you deserve? Deep down you know that you are the star in this movie that is your life. All the other people are just extras, just empty slates. YOU are someone special. YOU will be a "hero". You are so close to getting what is rightfully yours. Now all you have to do is doing something selfish, stupid and reckless. What are you waiting for? You are special! Now all you have to do is claim it!

Grab your gun and rob that store, because you are special and other people are not.
Deny that gay couple their legal right to marriage, because you are special and they are not.
Walk around with an assault-rifle in public, because you are special and they are not.
You deserve these 15 minutes of fame with your dick-headed publicity stunt, because you are special and they are not."

Sorry, but that's just dumb. You're comparing those want to protect themselves from criminals to the criminals.

A woman who carries a gun to protect herself from an abusive stalkers is not the same as a bank robber. A store owner is not the same as a rampage killer.

You might as well claim people who go to wine tastings are the reason we have abusive alcoholics.