Martin Hotze wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 06:23:47 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:

Indeed, go figure. Go figure as well that Switzerland had even fewer
deaths than the UK and every home is REQURED to have guns.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

hmm, Switzerland is a neighboring country. I didn't knew that. Do you
have some sources for this claim? Please from .ch domains.
You might mean that men on reserve from the swiss military are
required to have their equipment (and gun/riffle/??) at home.

It goes deeper than that. See:

"Gun politics in Switzerland"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_pol...in_Switzerland
(Links to .ch web sites in the above article.)

"Switzerland and the gun"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1566715.stm

Regarding the U.S.: Since the United States was created by an act of
rebellion it seems reasonable to conclude that act lead to a natural
cultural predilection toward personal gun ownership. The U.S. also
originated on a colonial frontier where the gun was a necessary tool of
survival.