Re: Protest Vote '92 (Was: Don't waste your vote on Bush or Clinton)

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From: Jim Cathey
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:00

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In article <1992Oct09.152435.7133@microsoft.com> davidst@microsoft.com (David Steckler) writes:
>I don't know the reason, but Switzerland supposedly requires all households
>to keep fully (not semi, but fully) automatic weapons. It might be to thwart
>external instead of internal agression. They do have a ridiculously low
>crime rate over there (I don't know if there's a correlation between everyone
>owning guns (machine-guns, at that) and a low crime rate, but they certainly
>don't show any correlation between firearm access and a high crime rate).

Remember:  An armed society is a _polite_ society!

Isn't Switzerland the country with the mandatory military service?  The
population _is_ their Reserve Army, and, from the sounds of it is already
partially equipped.

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From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
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Subject: Re: Protest Vote '92  (Was: Don't waste your vote on Bush or Clinton)
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