You’re wrong in a large sense.

Switzerland has some of the highest numbers of firearm ownership, only under the United States, Serbia, and Yemen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

Their gun violence related deaths, however, are on a par with France and Canada, which have 15% fewer firearms, and Serbia, which has a very high rate of firearms ownership, is on par with the United Kingdom in terms of intentional homicide rate.

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compare/178/rate_of_all_gun_deaths_per_100_000_people/31,66,177,192,194,159

The intentional homicide rates in Switzerland and Canada are barely a blip, where in the UK it’s higher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

What this tells me, using real numbers instead of gut feelings, is that if someone is hellbent on murder, they’ll do it with a candlestick in the library if they have to. It also tells me that homicide is a cultural problem, not a “weapon used” problem. Nowhere is “safe” unless people are determined to keep it safe and civil.

I am an old man who long ago learned to listen to men of experience and of accomplishment. If I need financial advice I listen to men who are successful in the financial field. If I need welding advice, I seek out the advice of a talented welder.

I am 64 years old and my old eyes have seen unspeakable carnage. I have witnessed the cruelty of tyranny. I have carried the broken and dead bodies of men who have died serving our Country.

I take very little stock in people’s opinions concerning gun control who have never experienced tyranny, who have never faced evil, who have never fought an assailant, who have never had to physically protect a family member and who have never fired a weapon. Listening to the opinion of inexperienced individuals is the same as listening to non-combatants who create rules of engagement.

I find much truth in your writings Chris and it is great that you share the knowledge that you have gained from your years of experience. Please continue writing, the country needs to hear what you have to say.

PS. Barring all other variables, the better armed the resistance movement; the more effective they are…. Oppressed people will fight when given the means.

There’s a strange belief that ‘assault rifles’ are somehow more powerful than ‘hunting guns’.

Yet the typical hunting rifle is by far more powerful than an M-16 or AK-47:
M-16 (5.56 Nato): velocity 940 m/s; energy 1767 j
AK-47 (7.62 x 39): velocity 641 m/s; energy 2056 j

Hunting calibers:
7mm-08: velocity 850 m/s; energy 3304 j
.300 win mag: velocity 923 m/s; energy 5548 j
.30/30 Win: velocity 761 m/s; energy 2439 j- note that this is considered to be a low power, short range round in the hunting world.

Gun crimes are a problem, but they are not a real problem. In the grand scale, the risk of a law-abiding citizen being killed by a gun is, near as makes no difference, zero. Most of the “victims” of gun violence in the US are actually suicides, who will find some way to kill themselves. Almost all of the rest are criminals involved in some form of nefarious activity. And even those bogus numbers are dwarfed – by at least two orders of magnitude – by the number of times a law-abiding citizen uses a gun to defend themselves. But you never hear about those because those stories don’t advance the Progressive agenda.

You cannot “ensure that it does not happen.” Criminals will always get guns. First off, by definition they don’t care about laws. So a laws preventing criminals from having guns have little effect on armed criminals on the street. What it does do is provide a means to get criminals off the streets and into jails. Of course then Progressive idiots start complaining about too many criminals in jail – see Mayor Dumbass in New York – and the cycle repeats itself. Secondly, a semi-automatic weapon represents state-of-the-art manufacturing technology. For 1880. A modern machine shop – and every town larger than a wide spot in the road has at least one (heck, I’ve got a friend who has one in his garage) – is more than capable of churning out “weapons of war” by the dozen. Ammunition is a bit trickier, but it’s safer and less complex to manufacture than methamphetamine, so don’t expect a ban on that to be particularly effective.

The upshot is that all the laws in the world will not prevent a criminal from getting his hands on a gun. They will, however, prevent those law-abiding citizens who need one from being properly prepared. Every time there’s a high-profile shooting the Progs claim that Americans (you can’t be a Progressive and an American, just like you cannot be a mammal and have feathers) don’t want to do anything to prevent the violence. That’s a damned lie. We all want to stop the violence, it’s just that those of us on the right recognize that your “solutions” won’t actually do anything and will have multiple harmful consequences.