Conservatives love to talk about Switzerland. It’s not a good example.
Gun deaths are lower than in the U.S. but among the highest in Europe. And certainly higher than Japan where rates of civilian gun ownership are extremely low.
South Korea is adjacent to one of the world’s most brutal regimes, armed with nukes, constantly threatening warfare — and as a result has a plan of universal conscription. If any country on earth has a reason to deregulate guns (according to conservative logic), it’d be South Korea.
And yet: Barely any gun deaths! How’d they do it?
Because *civilian* gun ownership is tightly regulated and as a result, there’s barely any gun crime.
Maybe you think that’s stupid. Maybe you think South Koreans should all maintain basement arsenals full of handguns and sub-machine guns, and accept dozens of mass shootings and tens of thousands of gun deaths per year as the “price of freedom.”
But they don’t seem to think that, and they have an advanced economy and democracy that gets along just fine.
Guess you’ll have to “explain” that.
