[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by devonin

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. You're looking at guns, and a lot of violence and claiming that guns are responsible for the large amount of violence. Switzerland has mandatory military service for all citizens, everyone in the country has a military rifle and the training to use it, and they have one of the lowest crime rates on earth.

Coequally, England's crime rates have been skyrocketing ever since they "banned" all guns. Arguably though could be because they have failed to ban all guns, but certainly this would mean that guns are just something we need to deal with in this day and age.