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For those that don't know, you get a rifle to keep at home after you've done your military service in Swizterland. That's their "army", Swiss peasants in their Swiss fields with crummy rifles they've used twice in their lives.

I lived in Geneva for a while, and a few Swiss people told me that this arrangment was the reason Hitler never invaded Switzerland. He was too scared of all these inbred ploughmen getting their shitty rifles out and shooting his Panzers down from the mountains.

How I laughed.

We did have inbred peasants with shitty rifles on the border, and look what happened! We tried, kinda, we failed, totally, we were occupied.

It's still better that being "neutral" during the greatest conflict between good and evil the world had ever seen, and then claiming that Hitler didn't invade cos he was "scared". Hitler didn't invade Sitzerland since they rolled over before a single tank approached the Swiss border.


Anyway, I realise this an uphill struggle, but we have to make ourselves feel better one way or the other. You guys all got France, we got Switzerland.

And Belgium, of course. That's the only reason their country wasn't split between France and Holland.

I don't agree but I'm almost certain that we've had this conversation before. And I'm sure you're more emotionally vested in it than I.

My point was merely to illustrate that firearm control/violence is more multi-faceted than "Country A has more guns than Country B".

Yeah, I think so too, a while back.



Not really, I just go through the motions, to be honest. 15 years of living in the UK as a Frenchman tends to do that to you.



Yeah, I agree.

I didn't really have a point per se.

In your defense, Hitler was quite the *******.

Six million Jews can't be wrong.