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Re:Gun laws where guns take the most lives by giancarlostoro on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:31AM (#19300731)
Except that's not always true![0] Take Switzerland for example where knives rose as murder weapon of choice, and the rate of guns became lower. In fact... for a country that has so many guns, it's incredible to hear that only about 100 homicides occur per year[1]. The USA has a mental health issue, not a tooling issue. Gun safety and proper education can deter gun violence.

[0]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/homicide-report_statistics-show...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Switzerland#Crime_sta...

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Re:Gun laws where guns take the most lives by koyote on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:36PM (#19305134)
Switzerland is very different to the US concerning guns in most ways (including the fact that it only has around 1/4 of the guns the US has, per capita).

This article from the same website you linked is quite informative in my opinion:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/florida-school-shootin...

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