Yup, and I think I understand why that is, the loaded guns are on the table for everyone to consider, and it's turning people away from considering them as useful. The traffic is another evidence of this, the ones that are turned off by this see it as creating more problems but in reality this could help change everyone's behavior and make people a lot more considerate.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Never seen people carrying weapons in public, except for police, in Switzerland. I doubt that “nobody bats an eye at the sight of a civilian riding a bus, bike or motorcycle to the shooting range, with a rifle slung across the shoulder” is true.
Like in other countries you must have a license; to obtain it you must pass a theorical and practical exam and also and primarily you must prove that you need to carry the weapon “to protect yourself or other people or objects/properties from a specific danger”. See for example here.
GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR ACQUISITION
OF ARMS:
art. 8, para. 2, LArm
• 18 years of age;
• who are protected by a general trustee or a trustee for cause
Of incapacity;
• there is no reason to fear that the weapon will be used in a way that is Self or for someone else;
• not be registered in the criminal record for an act indicating
Violent or dangerous or for the repeated commission of crimes or offenses
There's no need to prove you have to protect yourself, are you even listening to what you're saying? Exactly what our how will that look? I need to protect myself from threat a?
Switzerland had and continues to have a flourishing gun culture.
The given link is official. I was referring to the sentence “nobody bats an eye at the sight of a civilian riding a bus, bike or motorcycle to the shooting range, with a rifle slung across the shoulder”: people would bat their eyes, and civilians can't carry weapons, unless what I've already written:
you must pass a theorical and practical exam and also and primarily you must prove that you need to carry the weapon “to protect yourself or other people or objects/properties from a specific danger”
Buying a weapon to keep it in your house? Sure, you're right, you can, and it's what you're talking about (“acquisition”). But when I've written carry, I mean in public, along the streets, at the cinema, on public transportation. Talking of the topic, there's no sense in using carry to refer to the fact that you can walk inside your house carrying your gun.
The next time you go to Switzerland, please take a pic of these people walking the street or riding busses with rifles.
Note: my experience is on french-speaking Switzerland. I can believe that other cantons could have different laws, though we should check first if it is a federal law that single cantons can override. From the given link, it seems its nationwide.
Oh, and I forgot to point at your griefer attitude:
There's no need to prove you have to protect yourself, are you even listening to what you're saying?
It's not me saying it: I've translated a part of a text you find in the link, where you can find a summary of what suisse law says.
I have, the text is very succinct and never mentions an exam or justifying your acquisitions of weapons with such a outrageous "i must protect myself and my property from threat a". You can point out the paragraph that describes that, but I don't think you can as I read the entire document and it mentions no such thing. They have open carry, meaning that you can carry anywhere, unless the business has a rule against it of course.
So to recap: no exam is needed to acquire weapons, you can carry weapons in public/open carry without exam, just the permit, nobody has to justify carrying weapons.
Yup, and I think I understand why that is, the loaded guns are on the table for everyone to consider, and it's turning people away from considering them as useful. The traffic is another evidence of this, the ones that are turned off by this see it as creating more problems but in reality this could help change everyone's behavior and make people a lot more considerate.
And evidence of that is Switzerland
http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/
Can a Steemit Singapore mutate into Switzerland??
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@mindhunter/singapore-like-steemit-leads-the-good-life-under-a-benevolent-dictator-but-how-long-can-the-american-dream-last
Never seen people carrying weapons in public, except for police, in Switzerland. I doubt that “nobody bats an eye at the sight of a civilian riding a bus, bike or motorcycle to the shooting range, with a rifle slung across the shoulder” is true.
Like in other countries you must have a license; to obtain it you must pass a theorical and practical exam and also and primarily you must prove that you need to carry the weapon “to protect yourself or other people or objects/properties from a specific danger”. See for example here.
There's not any exam, from the link.
There's no need to prove you have to protect yourself, are you even listening to what you're saying? Exactly what our how will that look? I need to protect myself from threat a?
Switzerland had and continues to have a flourishing gun culture.
The given link is official. I was referring to the sentence “nobody bats an eye at the sight of a civilian riding a bus, bike or motorcycle to the shooting range, with a rifle slung across the shoulder”: people would bat their eyes, and civilians can't carry weapons, unless what I've already written:
Buying a weapon to keep it in your house? Sure, you're right, you can, and it's what you're talking about (“acquisition”). But when I've written carry, I mean in public, along the streets, at the cinema, on public transportation. Talking of the topic, there's no sense in using carry to refer to the fact that you can walk inside your house carrying your gun.
The next time you go to Switzerland, please take a pic of these people walking the street or riding busses with rifles.
Note: my experience is on french-speaking Switzerland. I can believe that other cantons could have different laws, though we should check first if it is a federal law that single cantons can override. From the given link, it seems its nationwide.
Oh, and I forgot to point at your griefer attitude:
It's not me saying it: I've translated a part of a text you find in the link, where you can find a summary of what suisse law says.
I have, the text is very succinct and never mentions an exam or justifying your acquisitions of weapons with such a outrageous "i must protect myself and my property from threat a". You can point out the paragraph that describes that, but I don't think you can as I read the entire document and it mentions no such thing. They have open carry, meaning that you can carry anywhere, unless the business has a rule against it of course.
So to recap: no exam is needed to acquire weapons, you can carry weapons in public/open carry without exam, just the permit, nobody has to justify carrying weapons.
So to recap:
But you've read the entire document, so this is invented from here