Do events like the one today in Paris make you more in favor of gun ownership? (German, apartment)
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The Swiss really do love their automatic weapons. There are old stats on this link, I am sure I can dig for some more recent stuff. The #'s would probably trend higher.
The gun ownership rate in Switzerland is high because they are allowed to keep their rifles after their military service. Other than that, guns aren't really common.
In any case, the same rules apply to other handguns. You are not allowed to carry them publicly (without special permission), you are not allowed to store them with bullets in them and you have to keep the actual weapon and the breechblock separated.
That's really sad and gruesome. They shot him in the groin. Did you see how they shot up that police car? These guys were definitely pros. The fact with criminals is that they often times have the element of surprise to their advantage.
As I've said before, it was really irresponsible of whoever owns that magazine to keep them at that location given the constant threats and firebombing in 2011. They should have either been at an undisclosed location or have much better security - inside and outside the building. Of course hindsight is always 20/20.
But it might give you a chance to protect yourself. I just think about these poor people in that office today - even if they had advanced notice from security cameras that these terrorists were coming to kill them, there was literally nothing they could have done about it. Even if the police could get there immediately, they would have to be armed.
What? What?!? Making gun ownership impossible is the way to go. Otherwise, the first crazy guy has the possibility to take it and kill. Whether he kills one person or 100, it's one too much, full stop.
It's the job of the police and authorities to handle guns.
Besides, having guns never stopped people hijacking planes to hit buildings... so let's stop this fallacious argument. Guns for everybody are certainly not the right direction if we want to avoid issues since the problem is in their heads.
The gun ownership rate in Switzerland is high because they are allowed to keep their rifles after their military service. Other than that, guns aren't really common.
In any case, the same rules apply to other handguns. You are not allowed to carry them publicly (without special permission), you are not allowed to store them with bullets in them and you have to keep the actual weapon and the breechblock separated.
This is about 2 yrs old, but rather interesting to read. for me anyway
What? What?!? Making gun ownership impossible is the way to go. Otherwise, the first crazy guy has the possibility to take it and kill. Whether he kills one person or 100, it's one too much, full stop.
It's the job of the police and authorities to handle guns.
Besides, having guns never stopped people hijacking planes to hit buildings... so let's stop this fallacious argument. Guns for everybody are certainly not the right direction if we want to avoid issues since the problem is in their heads.
It's not the Police's job to be proactive in defending you. They are a reactive unit. That's how it works and always how it will work.
If someone had a ccw in that market they would have at least stood a chance. Here in the US every single ccw carrier would have been armed after that first shootout. I feel sorry for the sheep that are unarmed there in that market.
If the "good guys" were armed they would have been able to defend themselves.
Maybe, and maybe not. But maybe they could have gotten a couple of shots off rather than being held at gunpoint as the terrorists called each one by name, then separating them into 2 groups and shooting one at a time execution style.
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