The link to the article on Swiss gun control showed the truth of it. In Switzerland everyone has to serve in the Swiss army on a part-time basis for part of their lives, and during this service they MUST keep a rifle at home. They have a very high rate of suicides and family murders. QED.
Mick says Americans are not all gun toting cowboys. In June I was visiting Mount Airy, North Carolina and I person I met there showed me round his property. While we walked round his fishing pond I spotted a small black snake swimming in the water and pointed it out. The person whipped out a pistol and shot it before I could blink. The gun vanished equally quickly and we carried on with our walk. I realized then that I was truly abroad. I was told that in those parts you could by a gun at a car boot sale (they had a different term for it)with no permit or paperwork required for not much money. If you really needed to shoot a few Amish kids you could achieve it with very little effort.
Ray