Yet the President is not scoring political points inveighing against bucket manufacturers, or demanding federal laws against unfenced pools in private homes. Politics, not saving childrens' lives, is the foundation of the current anti-gun campaign. The host noted that, in Switzerland, all males are issued assault rifles for militia service and keep them at home, yet little crime exists there. By car or train, you see shooting ranges everywhere, but few golf courses. They stroll right past the police station and no one bats an eye.
Shooting is the national sport, and the backbone of the national defense as well.
More per-capita firepower exists in Switzerland than in any other place in the world, yet it is one of the safest places to be. Some 91 of these 189 murders and attempts involved firearms. Massive government controls. But virtually none of the important free-market works of the 20th Century can be found. F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, and Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman.