Re: [MBZ] Sunil's active duty - now Swiss neutrality and how theyget away with it

2008-06-16 Thread Mitch Haley
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

Re: [MBZ] Sunil's active duty - now Swiss neutrality and how theyget away with it

2008-06-16 Thread Redghost
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

Re: [MBZ] Sunil's active duty - now Swiss neutrality and how theyget away with it

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Thomas
Wow, with all those guns around there must be lots of shootings, uncontrolled passions and what not, or maybe some of them just up and shoot somebody? Perhaps they need some strict gun control laws. Now it's about guns! --R Redghost wrote: And the forces are well trained. Every saturday is