(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Wed Mar 18 01:32:40 PDT 2009


Tim Walters wrote:
> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> 
>> None of them are: it has been illegal for a civilian to own a firearm in
>> SF for some time now.
> 
> And yet, we have a (slightly) lower murder rate than Tucson:
> 
> http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=San+Francisco&state=CA
> http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Tucson&state=AZ
> 
>  > People in Switzerland are very heavily armed
> 
> Less than half the per capita gun ownership of the U.S.

However, 60% of Swiss men aged 18-34 keep rifles and other firearms 
belonging to the army at home as part of their conscripted and reserve 
military service.

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