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14.02.2011, 16:33
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | This is not a matter of opinion. I am stating a fact. Britain bans guns. "gun crime" goes up 89% If that is the kind of "progress" you seek for your country, then I guess perhaps we do have a difference of opinion.
Of course I respect the right to freedom of speech, I respect all human and natural rights. | | | | | This is the problem with statistics and people who are desperate to prove their point at all costs.
I see two alleged facts. You are trying to imply a causal relationship when there is a possibilty that none may exist. At best you have shown that a correlation can exist.
Did you ever stop to think that during this time policing numbers have gone down. The Bobby on the beat is less frequently seen. Even twenty years ago they were more common than they are now. Believe it or not it has been shown that Officer Plod has a huge affect on crime. Unfortunately people think that reducing staffing levels is a cost effective way of cutting government spending. I'd be curious as to how this works out in the long run once the true cost of crime is factored into the overall equation. BTW, those police constables didn't carry guns and most of the time they didn't need them. | Quote: | |  | | | PS- In the US, where we have the strictest gun bans in place, we also have the highest crime and murder rates- obviously - Wash DC, Detroit, NYC. " But for some reason, "everyone has a gun" Vermont, Swiss-like low low crime rates, safest place in America. Can't figure how that could be with everyone having all those dangerous guns around?? | | | | | Again you have given examples of two observed events that have occurred in dissimilar subsets. If you want to imply a causal relationship, the best that you can do in this case is to observe that in areas of high gun crime it is more likely that there will be bans on firearms. If your premise was correct then you should be able to find isolated rural settings where guns were banned and then gun crime went up. In your examples, the densely populated urban areas are where crime is likely to fluctuate based on other social factors like drug use, unemployment, etc. Taking away guns doesn't cause these things to worsen and yet these things do cause crime to worsen. I'm betting that when crime goes up that gun crime will go up as well.
Please, we don't mind intelligent discourse, but this hyper radical, borderline mindless rhetoric needs to be brought under control. As much as your prose flows nicely, it is painful to read as you do not seem to actually think through what you are saying most of the time. Do you actually read your posts for content before you click on the submit button?
Oh, and not everyone who disagrees with you is an imbecile or a traitor. Most of the arguments I have seen proposed to you in response to your posts have been fairly reasonable and respectful. Why can't you return the favour? Usually this kind of bullying behaviour indicates a certain level of distrust in ones own argument or grasp of the situation. Bludgeoning other people verbally won't make you right and it doesn't necessarily make them wrong.
I've said it before and I will say it again,
Good luck.
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14.02.2011, 16:46
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011
Obviously this guy is supposed to be a gun criminal, he's wearing a hoody and a baseball hat. How do I tell him apart from a law abiding registered gun owner with a hoody?
Probably responsible gun owners wouldn't be seen with a hoody, so here's a picture for a law abiding gun user. 
See, now we have some balance.
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14.02.2011, 16:55
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | 
Obviously this guy is supposed to be a gun criminal, he's wearing a hoody and a baseball hat. How do I tell him apart from a law abiding registered gun owner with a hoody?
Probably responsible gun owners wouldn't be seen with a hoody, so here's a picture for a law abiding gun user. 
See, now we have some balance. | | | | | You can also tell that hoodie guy is a baddie because he is out of focus and therefor more of an unknown. We are supposed to fear the unknown.
A responsible owner wouldn't be caught dead being so out of focus. Just like the second guy above. He is just intimidating but obviously not a baddie. | This user groans at the_clangers for this post: | | 
14.02.2011, 17:06
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | You can also tell that hoodie guy is a baddie because he is out of focus and therefor more of an unknown. We are supposed to fear the unknown.
A responsible owner wouldn't be caught dead being so out of focus. Just like the second guy above. He is just intimidating but obviously not a baddie.  | | | | | Additionally, whilst the hoodie is pointing his gun at you, the other chap is pointing his gun over your shoulder at someone (no doubt another hoodie) behind you.
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14.02.2011, 18:12
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | Enough of the vote perhaps, but I suspect this thread will stagger on for quite some time like someone shot in a Peckinpah movie...  | | | | | Regret you are probably right. Is there a lock-down vote button?
Otherwise this will degenerate...
Further...
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | You can also tell that hoodie guy is a baddie because he is out of focus and therefor more of an unknown. We are supposed to fear the unknown.
A responsible owner wouldn't be caught dead being so out of focus. Just like the second guy above. He is just intimidating but obviously not a baddie.  | | | | | Maybe not. But still irresponsible. Needs to learn better 'muzzle control'.
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14.02.2011, 18:30
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | It's not even a question of contacting the dead. William Tell is a fictional character who never existed... | | | | | | Quote: |  | | | Are you sure about that? I think most of the literature suggests that Bill was a real person who lived in the Middle Ages (14th Century). What isn't, and can never be, substantiated is whether he actually performed all the deeds that are attributed to him (...) | | | | | Now did he or didn't he shoot an arrow through a bright red apple ?
The vote's over y'all.. the Rösti Graben has spoken, nothing more to be added.. Good Evening
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14.02.2011, 20:16
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | Why?
BE, SH, etc. were all heavily AGAINST! 
Why would they change so quickly?
Tom | | | | | Quickly ? Things in the past often have changed within less than 5 years, and so you can expect them to change this time as well.
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14.02.2011, 20:40
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | You mean that Fribourg and Valais were part of the Sonderbund? Well, I guess I should be more specific about the trendsetting then (i.e., I meant Geneva or Geneva/Vaud).
But I admit Zürich City is also very advanced. I always love the graphics on the Tagesanzeiger website where you can switch from cantonal results to district level. Zürich is always there, a little red spot sitting in a sea of green (or vice versa).  | | | | | The graphics are misleading as done by Districts. Quite many towns and villages like Uster, Fällanden, Greifensee and Schwerzenbach voted YES and here I just took the Bezirk Uster. So that the real picture rather is different.
I did not find the looked for statistics, but think that places like Bülach, Regensdorf, Opfikon-Glattbrugg, Kloten and so on also voted Yes. And do not forget that many towns in No-voting Cantons also voted Yes.
To say it clearly, those who launched the initiative were fools. Had they spared the shooting clubs and given them a role in their plan, they might have won. But with some details of the initiative targetting the shooting clubs, they created an opposition, powerful in rural areas throughout the country.
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14.02.2011, 20:45
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what on earth are the benefits of keeping the guns at home in the house in a domestic situation instead of in a local armoury that is monitored and supervised?
It might have been tradition but everything moves on in the light of changing circumnstances - can't the Swiss do that?
I read some quote from someone high up in the army who said that it was a matter of trust between the public and the army, and that the army was the backbone of the country................
What shit is that?
Perhaps though there are some benefits in having them available for easy suicide or family financial squabbles...............?
Jerry
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14.02.2011, 20:48
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | Moi:Funny that's exactly what the Turks told the Armenians, right before they took their guns and killed them. How many million Armenian Christians were disarmed by the Turks and killed? As Europeans you were closer to it than Americans, so you should know more about the mass-killings of the disarmed Armenians than I do. http://www.davekopel.com/2a/LawRev/lethal.htm
........... http://www.truth-it.net/guns_and_genocide.html
I would expect anyone to try to assassinate some tyrant who was carrying out a genocide against their small group so good on them for trying. As I said I am sure you know more about European matters than I. I also know the Swiss are the smartest people in the world. I am just a dumb American and a fan from afar. But surely you could check my links and read the part how the Turks went village to village, collecting arms and disarming the Armenians before they killed them. Could you please check that and come back and correct your post? The one small group of Armenians they kept their arms and put up a spirited fight I should go back and re-read that part I forget if some them lived or not. | | | | |
The assassination-attempts came BEFORE the anti-Armenian actions. The "Genocide" you mention grew out of a police-action to find the wannabe-assassins. Enver Pasha and Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha were the leaders of a reform-movement actually.
To disarm locals at gun-point and then shoot them is a tactic followed by many (among them indeed the army of the Turkish Empire). But you mentioned this as if there was a "disarmament" in one year and that Genocide in another. What you now present is completely different from your original statement.
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14.02.2011, 21:37
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | You can also tell that hoodie guy is a baddie because he is out of focus and therefor more of an unknown. We are supposed to fear the unknown.
A responsible owner wouldn't be caught dead being so out of focus. Just like the second guy above. He is just intimidating but obviously not a baddie.  | | | | | "Hey you can't shoot me with that - it's banned!! " BANG BANG BANG! | The following 3 users would like to thank Rodica's children for this useful post: | | 
14.02.2011, 21:40
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | I did not find the looked for statistics, but think that places like Bülach, Regensdorf, Opfikon-Glattbrugg, Kloten and so on also voted Yes. | | | | | Not quite.
Bülach: 53.41% No
Regensdorf: 59.71% No
Opfikon: 56.56% No
Kloten: 57.09% No
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14.02.2011, 22:03
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | Not quite. 
Bülach: 53.41% No
Regensdorf: 59.71% No
Opfikon: 56.56% No
Kloten: 57.09% No
Source | | | | | Thanks, even if I am really very surprised !
I admittedly tend to forget that the Opfikon half of Opfikon-Glattbrugg is a rather conservative village, while a majority in Glattbrugg cannot vote as not being CH-citizens
But please tell me your source ! I was tracing but did not find it  the WEBsite of the Zürcher Oberländer only covered the Oberland of course !
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14.02.2011, 22:17
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011
Weapons don't kill people. It's the people who use the weapons.
In the wrong (or right) hands, anything can be improvised a weapon.
Cheers,
Nick | Quote: | |  | | | Guns don't kill people.
It's the bullets. | | | | | | 
14.02.2011, 22:42
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | But please tell me your source ! I was tracing but did not find it  | | | | | Strange... the link is supposed to go right to the canton's website. I'll try again: http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/abstimmungen.../gemeinden.php
or the full link as text:
http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/abstimmungen/2011_02_13/resultate/gemeinden.php
hope this helps
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14.02.2011, 23:03
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Thanks ! Now, let's have a look to the Yes-towns :
Aeugst am Albis -- a real surprise !
Bonstetten -- a surprise as well
Hedingen
Mettmenstetten
Rifferswil
Wettswil am Albis
Kilchberg -- usually righist, but of course very urban
Oberrieden
Thalwil -- to be expected in view of its Stadtzürcher people
Männedorf
Stäfa
Zollikon -- all three conservative but modern
Fällanden
Greifensee
Schwerzenbach
Uster
Winterthur Altstadt
Winterthur Oberwinterthur
Winterthur Töss
Winterthur Veltheim
Winterthur Wülflingen
Winterthur Mattenbach
Zürich, all "Kreise" / 4+5 78% Yes 
but even middle-of-the-road Kreis 2 63% Yes
all in all quite a clear result for the Canton,
and possibly a basis for some Cantonal laws
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| | Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011 | Quote: | |  | | | ...
Winterthur Altstadt
Winterthur Oberwinterthur
Winterthur Töss
Winterthur Veltheim
Winterthur Wülflingen
Winterthur Mattenbach
... | | | | | I take some comfort in knowing that amidst Winterthur's sea of "Yes-towns," Seen (where my relations live) was a "No" Gemeinde. |
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