re gun control proud to be a canuck in article pqsruinniae hp col col hp com dduff col hp com dave duff writes does anyone really believe the swiss have had no war within their borders because every adult male owns a rifle i m a great admirer of the swiss but years of peace on their turf has zilch to do with gun ownership can you picture hitler with panzers and focke wulfs poised on the border losing sleep over a few thousand expert rifleman sure the swiss population is and well was far larger than that i think your question should be losing sleep over a million expert riflemen certainly he could have conquered switzerland but a million armed militiamen especially in a mountainous area where tanks effectiveness is limited would have made it a real pain the question a conqueror would ask is is it worth the trouble the more difficult an invasion is the more likely the answer would be no certainly a million riflemen as opposed to a professional army of only ten or twenty thousand the best a country the size of switzerland could support makes invasions more difficult hitler stayed out of switzerland because the swiss run the money in this world really in i m not even sure you could prove that today despite the steriotype certainly the swiss bankers were not essential to the german war time economy frank crary cu boulder
