The Gun-Happy Swiss

“ Absurdem Est   You can see immediately where this is going.  An NPR "special series" on guns in America.  Did I say NPR?  The thing is,  I've been holding this for a week; it was originally published last March, pre-dating the "Navy-Yard" shootings, so that's not what compels me.  What does is having another exemplar of Liberal writing about guns. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson here looks at Switzerland- whoops— "Gun Loving" Switzerland,"— an immediate tip-off to mindset.   She is not a fan. So, what's good and bad about gun loving Switzerland?.  Read it.  See if you can find the "hasn't worked."  I found these. Swiss — like Americans — are grappling (oft used Liberal fun word for unsubstantiated predicates)  with the question of gun control these days after shooting attacks like one on Feb. 27 that killed four people in a factory outside Lucerne. Firearm deaths in Switzerland take place at just one-seventh the rate that they occur in the United States. But researchers say guns are often used in suicides and crimes of passion in Switzerland. (OMFG! Is she saying that with no access to guns there would be no suicides?) Gun control advocates argue Swiss authorities have lost track of too many of these military-issued guns, which account for most of the 2.5 million-plus guns in Switzerland. (That's what "gun control advocates do you twit.  Else they would not be  gun control advocates. ) Here are a few of the good. "Gun politics in Switzerland are unique in Europe. Switzerland does not have a standing army, instead opting for a people's militia for its national defense." (Wiki) "It's a tradition that some historians say kept the Nazis from trying to overrun Switzerland during World War II."(Article) What an awkward sentence.  "It's a tradition that some historians say ..." What does  that mean— "Tradition;" "Some historians?"  If you're going to throw in that qualifier, then I  expect a citation for historians who omit that tradition.  And does not mentioning something automatically mean dissent?  Of course not.  I think the reader will find that the "what's worked" column dominates this article.  Even if the reader is not aware that tax payer subsidized NPR is a nest of cloistered Liberals, with little knowledge of the other side of any issue they advocate; and that they make shit up, a lot;  the reader will like and admire the gun happy Swiss.  Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson was not able to make a sow's ear from a silk purse.  ”