Comments on: The arms-bearing Swiss and EU gun laws

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:58:52 +0000

Caedmon on September 13, 2019 at 3:45 am said:
Geneva gave the world Calvin and Rousseau, so let’s not feel too sorry for them.
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Too bad they weren’t also responsible for Hobbes.
The cartoons would write themselves.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:38:16 +0000

Steve57,

A long time ago I attended the wedding of a Canadian Naval officer. The bride and groom exited the church under a “roof” of raised and crossed navy cutlasses. It was quite a sight with the sunlight glinting off of those highly polished swords, and quite a throwback to an earlier time.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:46:55 +0000

The increased trade by Schengen, and no border controls of goods or persons, and just a little on capital, is really a lot of increase in trade and material well being. It’s a big part of the “gold” in the modern golden rule:
the one with gold,
makes the rules.

The eurocrats like making the rules, and spreading the gold to their friends, those who support more EU rules and more gold spreading to friends of the EU.

It’s sad that Switzerland is complying, but it’s bad that the EU commission is pushing on this issue. But it’s part of the common elitist desire to take power away from normals — for their own good.

By: Caedmon

Caedmon — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:45:33 +0000

Geneva gave the world Calvin and Rousseau, so let’s not feel too sorry for them.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:49:19 +0000

I find it extremely odd that it was ok to trust me in the back seat of an F14. With the mighty mighty AWG 9 radar and 6 six fire and forget AIM 54 Phoenix missiles. But now I can’t be trusted with an AR

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:39:56 +0000

The thing is for me I memorized the petty officer’s cutlass manual. The even weirder thing? I have a genuine naval cutlass and
now I know how that I memorized the cutlass manual and put in a few years of practice I know how to use it.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 02:29:34 +0000

The EU wants the Swiss to tighten up their gun laws? Every Swiss home has a machine gun and every Swiss retiree gets to keep theire petsalnal weapon.

How often do you hear about the Swiss crime poblem like Chicago?

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:09:11 +0000

AesopFan caught some things I missed about Switzerland. I like this one,

“[there exists] a large but unknown number of privately held hunting rifles, as only weapons acquired since 2008 are registered.” Many of those will not be declared.

There is a large non-response to New Zealand’s gun buy-back so far as well.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:58:33 +0000

TommyJay noted this development on the Nationhood Brexit thread.
I wondered if the Swiss voters were taking their referendum seriously, but not literally.
I suspect there will be a massive increase in shooting club memberships and gun collections. There would be in America. And how hard is it to go shooting once a year?

Another good reason Great Britain would be well out of the EU, assuming their own government will grow a spine on gun rights.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:51:49 +0000

“The difference here is that to keep and bear arms is a God given right.”

How can an imagined, non-existent entity… grant anything? That position is at the heart of the Left.

While liberals are too willfully blind to realize that without a transcendent entity to whom we are accountable for our actions, there is no basis whatsoever for having any ‘rights’.

Our ‘social credit score’ (obedience to the State) determining the privileges we are allowed…