I write this from Switzerland. Like most young men here, I went through military service and kept a rifle at home. That means: every Swiss household is familiar with the presence of a gun. Some people only keep the military-issued weapon, some also own private firearms – but it’s not unusual at all.
To give you an idea: in a country of 8.5 million, there are around 2.3 million civilian guns. Roughly one in three adults has access to one – and that’s not even counting militia rifles. So yes, we live surrounded by weapons.
And yet: Switzerland sees fewer than 20 gun homicides a year. In the U.S., it’s more than 40,000. The difference isn’t “guns or no guns.” It’s culture, rules, and context. For us, a rifle is tied to duty, training, and responsibility. In the U.S., too often it becomes identity, ideology, even myth.
I remember the feeling of having that rifle at 20 – heavy, cold, just a tool. Nobody thought of using it to settle an argument. That’s the contrast: here, guns are part of democracy; in the U.S., they’re part of polarization.
And maybe that’s where the discussion really begins. Nobody wants gun deaths – not conservatives, not liberals, not anyone. So why does the U.S. system produce so many, while ours doesn’t? Is it regulation? Social trust? Training? Or is it deeper – loneliness, inequality, ideology? Guns don’t pull their own triggers. People do. The hard part is asking: what makes people reach for them?
David, you’ve always said how Donald doesn’t understand how tariffs work. I think he absolutely understands how they work and always has. He always says it’s the countries paying the tariffs, and never gets push back, have u noticed that? He knows it’s a tax on the American people! This is ‘their’ plan, not just his. Where exactly are all these taxes going anyway? I bet they’re being funneled into their personal bank accounts somehow. Or being grifted to the cabinet or trump family. Isn’t this obvious? I mean there is no way trump doesn’t understand how tariffs work. He’s saying how billions are being funneled in from these tariffs. Where is the money going is the question. If it’s being used for programs to help Americans it wouldn’t be so bad, but I think it’s all being funneled somehow into their personal accounts.
Thank you. It's piling on higher and darker and more difficult to deal with every single day. And none of it makes any sense, much as you explain it really well. They're going to get the "left," for this murder, which would be what in their tiny minds.
Didn't they apprehend the shooter, or alleged shooter, already? Another rightwing nutjob? Just like the guy who knicked Bunkerboy earmy and made it GUSH BLOOD because of blood thinners?
But it makes me recall all the PROGRESSive shooters now . . . hm.
Where did the info that Tyler R was into the leftist dark web come from? Do you know with 100% certainty that it’s true. Did that information come from the FBI? It's Trump’s FBI. They will lie if they need to. I'm curious about the original source.
Thank you David. I appreciate this.
Every act, every comment becomes yet another excuse to extend the repression, punish, and subjugate those who disagree.
Keep up the good fight !
I write this from Switzerland. Like most young men here, I went through military service and kept a rifle at home. That means: every Swiss household is familiar with the presence of a gun. Some people only keep the military-issued weapon, some also own private firearms – but it’s not unusual at all.
To give you an idea: in a country of 8.5 million, there are around 2.3 million civilian guns. Roughly one in three adults has access to one – and that’s not even counting militia rifles. So yes, we live surrounded by weapons.
And yet: Switzerland sees fewer than 20 gun homicides a year. In the U.S., it’s more than 40,000. The difference isn’t “guns or no guns.” It’s culture, rules, and context. For us, a rifle is tied to duty, training, and responsibility. In the U.S., too often it becomes identity, ideology, even myth.
I remember the feeling of having that rifle at 20 – heavy, cold, just a tool. Nobody thought of using it to settle an argument. That’s the contrast: here, guns are part of democracy; in the U.S., they’re part of polarization.
And maybe that’s where the discussion really begins. Nobody wants gun deaths – not conservatives, not liberals, not anyone. So why does the U.S. system produce so many, while ours doesn’t? Is it regulation? Social trust? Training? Or is it deeper – loneliness, inequality, ideology? Guns don’t pull their own triggers. People do. The hard part is asking: what makes people reach for them?
The guilty alway's pivits their guilt. Why hasn't the fox commentator, Brain not been axed from work yet for his murderous comment 😡,Why!?
David, you’ve always said how Donald doesn’t understand how tariffs work. I think he absolutely understands how they work and always has. He always says it’s the countries paying the tariffs, and never gets push back, have u noticed that? He knows it’s a tax on the American people! This is ‘their’ plan, not just his. Where exactly are all these taxes going anyway? I bet they’re being funneled into their personal bank accounts somehow. Or being grifted to the cabinet or trump family. Isn’t this obvious? I mean there is no way trump doesn’t understand how tariffs work. He’s saying how billions are being funneled in from these tariffs. Where is the money going is the question. If it’s being used for programs to help Americans it wouldn’t be so bad, but I think it’s all being funneled somehow into their personal accounts.
Thank you. It's piling on higher and darker and more difficult to deal with every single day. And none of it makes any sense, much as you explain it really well. They're going to get the "left," for this murder, which would be what in their tiny minds.
Didn't they apprehend the shooter, or alleged shooter, already? Another rightwing nutjob? Just like the guy who knicked Bunkerboy earmy and made it GUSH BLOOD because of blood thinners?
But it makes me recall all the PROGRESSive shooters now . . . hm.
Where did the info that Tyler R was into the leftist dark web come from? Do you know with 100% certainty that it’s true. Did that information come from the FBI? It's Trump’s FBI. They will lie if they need to. I'm curious about the original source.