For those who believe todays music, video games & movies are causing mass shootings:
You are WRONG.
If this was the case it would happen all over the world. Here in Europe we listen to the same music, play the same games & enjoy the same movies but we do not have daily mass shootings because we don’t have the GUNS.
GUNS are WRONG
@stux actually no.
#eurole has even more illegal guns per capita thx to two world wars, the cold war, balkan wars and #EUgunban.
What is different in #Europe - including #Switzerland where people can still legally buy #MachineGuns new - is that we don't reward said acts of #StochasticTerrorism with screentime.
Guns ain't the problem but people.
Otherwise #Canada, #Serbia, #Slovenia and #Germany would've equal amouns of #MassShootings.
https://www.ch.ch/en/safety-and-justice/owning-a-weapon-in-switzerland/#which-weapons-require-which-permits suggests Switzerland doesn't generally allow machine guns to be owned.
They're forbidden, but if you're a sport-shooter (member of a club, participate in competition shootings "regularly"), or a collector, you might get exempted.
Regular would be at least 5 times in a 5 year period, so not actually that much.
@chrisn @stux Case in point: Getting that permit as an individual is actually feasible and trivial in most cases compared to getting the U.S. Equivalent [Destructuve Device Manufacturer] which the ATF is ordered to "shall deny" unless proven otherwise.
But that:s not the point.
Fact is there are at least 16.700.000 confirmed and over 40.000.000 estimated guns in illegal curculation in Germany alone...
@chrisn @stux
Ranging from Pre-WW1 Needle Rifles and WW2 inventory losses to MP5's recently stolen from police armories...
In fact, it's easier to illegally obtain a gun than to legally buy even a legal gas gun, acquire the legal to use lesser lethal cartridges that aren't banned for anti-personnel use and getting a permit to carry said gas pistol.
I will not do the former instead of the latter out of principle:
Convictions make one less able to lobby successfully...
stux⚡️
Kevin Karhan 
C.N.