"The shooting at Daillon, on a steep slope in snow-covered Alpine foothills about 50 miles southeast of Lausanne, shocked the Swiss people because it seemed so senseless. It immediately revived their perennial debate over the danger posed by large numbers of unregistered weapons in private hands and the tradition of off-duty soldiers storing their guns at home in a closet.
The Swiss debate has closely resembled the arms-control controversy that boiled up in the United States after the Newtown killings. Liberal Swiss politicians, following a script shared by American colleagues, have vowed to push for new restrictions. Their conservative opponents have maintained that more laws would do nothing to prevent such shooting sprees.
Although separated by thousands of miles and the Atlantic Ocean, the United States and Switzerland have in common long traditions of unusually high levels of weapons possession among their citizens. Behind Switzerland’s image of whispering bankers and scrubbed chalets, it also has, like the United States, a strong and vocal segment of the population that considers attempts to tighten arms controls an attack on individual liberties and national character.
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