James Finn
1 min readMay 30, 2022

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Guns in Switzerland are highly regulated, though. They have to be locked up, and gun culture is about participating in regimented shooting clubs, mostly to maintain military readiness. Mess up by having the gun in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you lose it, probably forever. It's not a "cowboy culture" like here in the US.

Tiny Switzerland is perhaps not a very typical model in other ways. Standards of living are much higher than in the U.S., teens and young adults are generally supported into well paying careers, and life for almost everyone is pretty good.

I mean they have their problems, of course, but their society is fundamentally stable and close knit, with strong community bonding that goes back generations - to the point that they're accused of being xenophobic, even sometimes to other Swiss people who live relatively near them. (language politics translate to tight cultural bonding but also to suspicion of "outsiders")

Trying to use Switzerland as a model is probably unworkable because of how special it is.

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James Finn
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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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