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Gun Toting Europeans
Yes they do exist:
Evening rush hour at the train station: men in suits, a woman carrying a cello, kids lugging snowboards. Markus Marschall, a university engineering student, walked through the bustle wearing an orange T-shirt, leather jacket and aviator sunglasses — and a Sturmgewehr 90 automatic assault rifle slung over his shoulder.
“It’s perfectly normal,” said Marschall, 25, who carried the olive-green rifle, issued to him by the Swiss military, on a canvas strap as casually as he might carry a tennis racket. Nobody gave him a second glance.
Sweet.
3 Responses to “Gun Toting Europeans”
It has been my impression that Switzerland is a relative libertarian country–one in which the government is business-friendly and has a relatively let-and-let-live policy in terms of how people live their lives.
It’s also interesting to note that Switzerland has a non-interventionist foreign policy and doesn’t seem to have any problems with terrorism. This would seem to disprove the “terrorists hate us for our freedom” rhetoric that we often hear from war supporters.
> Switzerland is a relative
> libertarian country
It has a federal system of government, too. (This is merely coincidental, but interesting. It’s a shame we haven’t truly tried ours since the 1930s.)
http://www.swisspolitics.org/en/foederalismus/index.php?page=front
http://www.swissworld.org/eng/swissworld.html?siteSect=702&sid=4052958&rubricId=15020
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=20107&sid=6828944
http://www.democracy-building.info/switzerlands-political-system.html
I find Aviator sunglasses make any outfit sexy.