And the forces are well trained. Every saturday is target practice, and neighborhoods ring out with gun fire for six hours. Would make the boys in the hood think twice about doing much criminal shenanigans. Just a way of life to serve the greater good of the nation. Makes for very stern populace.
maybe that is why the youth are into hard drugs, as a means to escape service. clay On 16 Jun 2008, at 10:17, Mitch Haley wrote: > Bill R wrote: >> Imagine trying to get around Switzerland without the >> bridges and with a trained and armed populace. > > There have been recent efforts to do away with that 'armed > populace' thing and > bring Switzerland in step with the 'civilized' world. From the EU's > (and especially > the UK's) point of view, a military rifle in every house is just a > horrible thing. > (but in USA, having one in every civilian police car is just > wonderful) > Many progressive thinking Swiss gov't leaders are starting to > agree, but they are > still in the minority. I believe that having nearly everybody in > the military, > and all the military keeping machine guns at home is the reason why > home invasions > are so rare in Switzerland. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
