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Swiss voters on Sunday approved a measure to tighten the Alpine nation's gun laws, bringing the country in line with many of its European partners despite the objections of local gun owners, Swiss media reported, citing official results.
Switzerland's public broadcaster said more than 63% of voters nationwide agreed to align with European Union firearms rules adopted two years ago after deadly attacks in France, Belgium, Germany and Britain.
The vote Sunday was part of Switzerland's regular referendums that give citizens a direct say in policymaking. It had stoked passions in a country with long, proud traditions of gun ownership and sport and target shooting. Switzerland, unlike many other European nations, allows veterans of its obligatory military service for men to take home their service weapons after tours of duty.
The Swiss proposal, among other things, requires regular training on the use of firearms, special waivers to own some semi-automatic weapons and serial number tracking system for key parts of some guns. Gun owners would have to register any weapons not already registered within three years, and keep a registry of their gun collections.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday May 24 2019, @01:10AM (2 children)
"Due to the fact that God himself commanded his people to kill other people."
If you believe that, you didn't read the book closely enough.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @04:50AM (1 child)
By which you mean, god himself didn't command anything because god doesn't exist, and the bible is a collection of nonsensical, contradictory fairy tales written by ancient barbarians?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday May 24 2019, @11:12AM
Nonsensical? You need to look deeper, there is sense, it's just not the sense you may be expecting.
Contradictory? Surface contradictions are there to remind you to look deeper.
As an example, I'll repeat the quote I was replying to;
"God himself commanded his people to kill other people."
There are several passages that seem to say this, yes. But there's also abundant evidence this is simply not true, not least being the later passages where the same people that were supposedly slaughtered to the last man in a previous chapter turn up again, alive and doing just fine many years later.
You can look at this and just decide it's nonsense, as you have, and that's your right, but it's certainly not the only way to understand it.
If you read carefully, it goes from being full of contradictions to being full of confessions.
Those contradictory passages are evidence of a person or persons conventionally referred to as 'the deuteronomist' who claimed to be 'reforming,' restoring what G_d had originally commanded, when in fact he was doing the opposite - writing his own rules, then using G_d like a ventriloquists dummy to promote them.
This is clear on a close reading, 2 Kings 23 among other passages cannot be read any other way. G_d didn't order genocide, genocidal men put their evil fantasies in G_ds mouth, and this was followed by death, destruction, and captivity.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?