The Swiss take their national security even more seriously than their fabled banks. Interestingly, in spite of most households having automatic arms, far more Swiss are killed each year by falling ice than murdered by firearms, which should cause control-advocates to pause and think.
Every Swiss soldier is a crack shot and often trains annually with the same unit year after year.
Most important, like Israel's superb armed forces, the Swiss military is built from units of men who live and work together in civilian life. Company directors often find themselves reporting to employees, bankers to taxi drivers, and so on. Any failure to perform in the military produces ignominy in civilian life. The lowlands, such as the Basel region, were to be abandoned in time of war. Swiss forces would withdraw to the central mountain redoubt, which is honeycombed by underground forts and gun batteries in casemates.