Original sentence: However, this claim is highly disputed.Registration aside, gun rights advocates claim that an armed citizenry is a strong deterrent against a foreign invasion.They note that many soldiers in the American Revolution were ordinary citizens using their privately owned firearms
Edited sentence: About 40% of Switzerland's cantons (states) do not require a permit to carry a handgun.Also, according to the U.For instance, Switzerland has similar crime rates to Japan and Great Britain.Further, correlation between gun control and crime is inconsistent among countries.Gun control advocates point out that countries such as the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia have strict controls on gun ownership with democratic systems of government and low crime rates.Gun rights advocates counter that the current benevolent nature of a government does not predict its future.Handguns can be bought with firearm purchase permits, which are issued to all adults without a criminal record or a history of mental illness.However, this does not indicate that gun controls inevitably lead to totalitarianism.In Switzerland, the purchase of semi automatic rifles and shotguns requires no permit, and adults are free to carry them.Indeed, there may be a historical regularity in that totalitarian regimes pass gun control legislation as a first step of their reign of terror.Italy has the most restrictive gun laws in Europe and the firearm homicide rate is twice that of Switzerland's.Nazi legislation is the most famous example of this sequence, but it also occurred in Marxist regimes.Registration aside, gun rights advocates point out that an armed citizenry is a strong deterrent against a foreign invasion.Switzerland has a citizen militia where most all men between the ages of 21 and 32 are required to keep fully automatic machine guns in their home.The homicide rate in Japan is similar to the homicide rate for Japanese-Americans, which implies it is the Japanese culture, and not the absence of guns that is responsible for Japan's low homicide rate.The sequence is supposed to be gun registration, followed some time later by confiscation.They point out that many soldiers in the American Revolution were ordinary citizens using their privately owned firearms.of Justice, crime rates have risen in the England & Wales even as guns have become more regulated, with a doubling in the number of firearm homicides in England and Wales since they imposed their current gun laws