[Pharmboy]

Because I was in the pharmaceutical industry, I was in Basel, Switzerland six or seven times, the last time about 8 years ago. On several of those occasions, I drove (or was driven by a Swiss colleague) from Zurich to Basel and vice versa. Each time, we passed military training convoys...and my host told me of the airstrips located in the mountains.

They take self defense seriously, and guns do not scare them. And, like the Israelis, have the lowest breaking and entering rates in the world since everyone is armed.

[from occupied ga]

guns do not scare them

In the late '90's I attended a patriots' day celebration in Lexington and witnesses the following: A vendor was selling little toy muskets. A small boy 6 - 9 (not good at guesssing kids' ages) asked his mother for one. Not only was the child severly chastised for "wanting a gun," but then the mother went over to the vendor and smugly and nastily scolded him for daring to sell toy guns. One of the few times I wished criminal ativity on someone, thinking how maybe if someone broke into her house and did something to her it might open her mind.