Reply #59: The assault weapons ban is so evil almost every civilized nation has one

[billbuckhead]

:sarcasm: Even Switzerland is switching to EU gun regs.

Skier's murder prompts Swiss women's campaign for ban on guns in the home

"Now, Switzerland's biggest women's magazine is leading a campaign to tighten what they see as the country's archaic gun laws. They want lawmakers to create a national gun register and ban loaded weapons being kept in the home.

A petition to the Swiss parliament contained the signatures of 17,400 Swiss women who support the reform campaign.

"There are more and more homicides in the home and more and more of the victims are women," says Lisa Feldmann, editor-in-chief of Annabelle. As well as having one of the highest gun-suicide rates in Europe, Switzerland has more women shot dead than almost anywhere in the Western world, many of them after arguments with men."
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<http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1919124.ece>

One very interesting thing is how much gun politics around the world has such a large gender gap with so many women feeling threatened by guns and so many men threatened that they might lose their guns.