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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 06:41 AM Original message |
Swiss vote on tighter gun controls |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. Exit Polls say the initiative will be defeated. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
2. The Swiss system has worked well for them for generations...I doubt they would change it. |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. It has worked well for those who weren't shot, yeah. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. FWIW, the prefered method of suicide in Europe for many years has been Tylenol...nt |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I guess you have never been there. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. HAHA!! |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Yeah with all those guns switzerland has been in a perpetual blood bath |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 08:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Back in the '70s |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Have not, AFAIK- this is ANTI's delusional thinking....nt |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. If what you say is true, then why are they reconsidering a policy that has |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. Deleted duplicate. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Has gun control ever worked to reduce suicides? |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I don't know that there's ever been such a study done. |
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orb Jones (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Australian researchers have found there has been an almost 80 per cent drop in firearm suicides |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. And yet the overall suicide rates have stayed flat or increased |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. But it's not that people are killing themselves with guns that's the problem |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
13. Citizen army |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
14. Congratulations to the Swiss |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Swiss voters reject anti-gun initiative |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. Good for the swiss. america could learn a thing or two or twelve |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. Suicide and assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland |
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Baclava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
20. Rejected - 56 per cent of voters decide to keep their guns |
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