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John25 · #1 Post by **John25** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 2:04 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21601323

LeighC · #2 Post by **LeighC** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:33 pm

Three dead and they call it 'a massacre'? A tragedy, undoubtedly, but a massacre?

#3 Post by **Christel** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:48 pm

Maybe they call it a massacre because it rarely happens over there...

TJC · #4 Post by **TJC** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:10 pm

christel wrote:Maybe they call it a massacre because it rarely happens over there...

Not true. It does happen over there. There have been several high-profile incidents over the years, including the killing of 14 people at a city council meeting in Zug in 2001. Last month a 33-year-old man killed three women and wounded two men in a southern Swiss village. Over 75% of murders in Switz are carried out with firearms.

Crime relative to gun ownership is low but the reason this is called a massacre is because that's what the media wants to call it.

LeighC · #5 Post by **LeighC** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:32 pm

True TJC, that's what I was alluding to

Thomas Turner · #6 Post by **Thomas Turner** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:34 pm

Are the Swiss crying for immediate restrictions on gun ownership though?

#7 Post by **Chuck** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:35 pm

Typical BBC - OTT anti gun hysteria. The terminal incontinence from the beeb whenever a gun is involved os infuriating. No blame attributed to the person who pulled the triggger as the BBC KNOWS that guns are sentient beings with a will and mind of their own, able to exert mind control rays over the human species on a whim.

Crying for restrictions, probbaly not, only a few do so but the media see a few as "everyone"....it's a sort of mental blindness they have through years of telling lies. They cannot help it.

LeighC · #8 Post by **LeighC** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:59 pm

Thomas Turner wrote:Are the Swiss crying for immediate restrictions on gun ownership though?

No, they're not!

M1Charles1M · #9 Post by **M1Charles1M** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:24 pm

LeighC wrote:
Thomas Turner wrote:Are the Swiss crying for immediate restrictions on gun ownership though?
No, they're not!

in fact this quote seems to sum up the attitude:

Hermann Suter, vice-president of the Swiss lobbying group Pro Tell, is infuriated by calls that the Swiss military should give up their guns and store them in a central arsenal.

"It is a question of trust between the state and the citizen. The citizen is not just a citizen, he is also a soldier, " he reminds me. "The gun at home is the best way to avoid dictatorships - only dictators take arms away from the citizens."

Are YOU listening UK Government????????

As for the Beeb reporting - sign01

John25 · #10 Post by **John25** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:38 pm

The BBC is run by the government.

They are instructed to magnify firearms incidents.

The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

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