kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP (08/18/86)
To: harvard!wanginst!davis@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU My point was not that Switzerland is an ideal society, but that plentiful and available guns and ammunition do not automatically result in a high crime rate. Some of the anti-gun nuts would have you believe that the mere presense of weapons turns people into crazed killers, and that the mere absense of weapons will cause people to live harmoniously. Any example of people living together peacefully in the presense of weapons, and any example of people at eachother's throats in the absense of weapons, is evidence against that simplistic world view. ...Keith -------