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Originally Posted by Kagatob
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^ Think Switzerland is interesting in that area, try Norway, they have even more guns and THE WORLD's lowest gun related crime %. Citizens there are actually required to own a gun and learn how to use it properly, also they are required to go to firearm retraining every so many years (forget 3 or 5).
With that said, both nations also have extensive firearm regulations/laws and very swift/serious punishments for disobeying them.
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No one is required to own a gun in Norway. I know Norway has pretty strict requirements for owning a gun, but I don't know what the requirements are in the US, so it's kind of hard to compare them (I could probably wikipedia it, but that would take too many clicks). Another thing though is that you can't bring a weapon to a public place unless you're transporting it for a good reason, and unless it's empty and concealed at all times. So Norway isn't some utopia where no one shoots each other for fear of their own mutually assured destruction, and the reason everyone has guns is more related to their hunting culture than anything else.