RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 18, 2023 at 4:13 am
(August 28, 2023 at 8:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 28, 2023 at 10:58 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: How do you explain the fact that Switzerland, a country where the government gives a gun to every male at the age between 18 and 65, doesn't have a lot of mass shootings?
Those guns are issued as part of military reserve service, and can be withdrawn at any time upon the holder showing unstable mentality. That might play a part. Additionally, I'm sure that, being military, they undergo psychological evaluation before being inducted.
That's a far cry from American nutjobs.
A question in my own turn: do you think that it's a coincidence that the most gun-saturated culture in the world also has the most gun deaths not associated with civil war?
Sorry for not responding for a while, I was working on my Bachelor thesis.
No, I don't think it's a coincidence. I think guns as a form of self defense are common sense to people and that if I were forced to live in a high-crime area (such as much of the US), I would also get a gun.
