DarkJoker33
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Ya, When he started to compare America's gun culture and 2nd amendment with Switzerland's, then I could see where he was going with it.Dammit.
It started good,then it went to shit near the end
When I was touring Switzerland, I thought it really cool to see artillery placed all over carve-outs on cliffs and concealed in countryside like normal farm buildings.
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He notes that the Swiss government is intimately involved with training, supporting, and issuing of arms to educate the public for its own defense. There was a time in the U.S. when a civilian branch of the army, the Department of Civilian Marksmanship, loaned rifles, and made available ammunition for the same educational purposes as the Swiss. This is still done somewhat, but in my experience, it becomes somewhat shrouded within NRA affiliated clubs, sort of a backwater for the select few for the most part. No government support for shooting ranges ever existed, except for the police.
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Was that in the 1940s?
I don’t doubt you but I never noticed that in two summers in Switzerland (1980s).