Re: Light Bulbs are getting Expensive / New Tax

In <1189003386.140436.278820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, RickH wrote:
On Sep 5, 9:11 am, dpb <n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Phisherman wrote:

The USA has ...the highest ratio in the world. ...

I heard somewhere just the other day (I don't recall precisely where,
but do remember thinking at the time it seemed a little unusual so I'm
wondering if it wasn't NPR's All Things Considered or something similar)
that despite the above common assertion that other places have more --
seems like Israel was one of the other places specifically mentioned...

Does Switzerland still require every able bodied man to be trained in
gun use? I heard gun ownership is high there too, which would
certainly explain why it is a very low-crime country. I dont know,
just asking, maybe somebody from there is reading.

Switzerland has a high rate of home presence of guns larger than
handguns, and strict laws on carrying them around.

I would feel safer if everyone (without criminal record or record of
specific disqualifying mental illness in past specific X years) had a gun
of the size of what is in Swiss homes (or maybe a little bigger), and
nobody is allowed to have anything smaller.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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