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This doesn't sound hugely informed. I spent the evening discussing this yesterday with Americans in a beer garden in Munich.

Actually, more than the working conditions, the Americans didn't want to go back because of the guns.

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Do you think people just run around with guns in the US? Not everything is as crazy as the news makes it sound. Its definitely a problem, but its not like were living in constant fear

I didn't until the Americans told me it was a significant problem. I was a bit surprised. Minneapolis.

Isn't Switzerland one of the few countries with a higher proportion of adults having guns than the US ?

It is, because they get them after serving mandatory time in the military. So more or less every swiss man has a military grade weapon at home. Only in newer times the ammunition is stored in special houses in each community. Before, they had their ammo at home.

They're also rifles, not handguns - and it's handguns that are the problem in the US. Around 75-80% of firearm murders in the US are by handguns.

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