Women's magazine hands in gun ban petition

Swiss Info (Switzerland) ^ | 9/19/06 | n/a

[Kaylee Frye]

Agreed. :) I sure wouldn't wanna go in there! Course if these crazy women get their way, they may have more people interested in their country (interested in taking it away that is).

[Old Professer]

Yeah, and then they go back to being idiotic.

[vpintheak]

Why do sane men listen to them?

[spunkets]

Swizerland pop stats

0-14 years: 16.3% (male 637,585/female 591,297)
15-64 years: 68.1% (male 2,585,062/female 2,539,345)
65 years and over: 15.6% (male 480,198/female 690,447) (2006 est.)

The 17400 Ws are 0.69% of the female pop. 15-64 yrs old. That's not a significant number. I don't wonder why they didn't mention that at all. They have their agenda and BS counts when it comes to herding idiots.

[Shooter 2.5]

I saw a compact car today with a lot of anti-Bush bumper stickers all over it. It was driven by an extremely fat female headed to the local greasy spoon.

On the other side of the bumper was a sticker that read, "Parents with Teens In Crisis". Gee, you think?

[ApplegateRanch]

During WW2, Hitler considered invading Switzerland but stopped when he got the loss estimates back. Germany could have successfully invaded Switzerland, but only with extreme losses and for little to no gain;

That is just seemingly a myth, in Academe, because when I used that as an answer in history a few decades ago, the teacher laughed derisively.

He then pointed out that Germany had the world's most modern and powerful forces of the time, and could have taken Switzerland with no problem.

The "answer" he wanted was that Hitler most reasonably realized that Switzerland was too valuable as neutral territory, because some place everybody trusted was necessary for both sides to use for holding diplomatic talks!

Need I mention he also had a few "interesting theories" that would have been less than welcome here, concerning the Soviet Union?

My own theory was to give the required answer to pass, then add that particular person to my personal "better dead" list, in case future needs and opportunities presented themselves.

[Spktyr]

Yeah, sounds like he was on hallucinogens.

Yes, Germany had the world's most modern and powerful forces in Continental Europe. The problem was that the Swiss were about as numerous, were almost as well equipped, far better trained, and could only be assaulted through narrow mountain passes - which favored the defenders.

If memory serves, the casualty estimates that the Wehrmacht gave Hitler ranged as high as 90% casualties in the first wave, with successive waves taking only slightly lower casualties. The amount of manpower that Hitler would have had to bring to bear to crack the Swiss would have been enormous, and would have drained manpower from all over the Nazi empire. After the Brits opened the North African campaign in 1940 and the Soviets opened the Eastern Front in 1941 Hitler no longer had the manpower to spare.