Title: PolitiFact | Facebook posting says the gun-rich Swiss have the lowest firearm crime rate in the civilized world
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"Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!"
Facebook posting says the gun-rich Swiss have the lowest firearm crime rate in the civilized world
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Content: "It's very much like the militia ideal that was embodied in the Second Amendment," said Ladd Everett of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. " Individuals who own military-style firearms are literally serving the national defense of their country." The ammunition for the weaponry is kept in a government arsenal. ( Swiss men used to be able to keep up to 50 rounds at home and the government did a periodic inventory to make sure it wasn't being used, but that changed in 2007 when the country tightened its rules.) Ammunition purchased at shooting ranges -- which are very popular in Switzerland -- is supposed to be used there. Overall, "they have fewer guns per capita than we do and far stricter gun laws in terms of private ownership," Everett said. " If the U.S. ever attempted to implement gun laws like Switzerland's, the NRA would fight it tooth and nail." Our ruling
A Facebook posting, which has been shared more than 187,000 times, said, "Switzerland has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world." But Killias, a Swiss researcher, told us, "The way Switzerland is being depicted in some [accounts] is absurd." To say that the country has the lowest gun related crime rate is not true for homicide, according to the few studies of crime in various countries that includes data on gun use.