What was the topic again?

Yep, smokie, i am reading about Swissmen and guns, and i wonder where is the nexus..

Oh well

It was an allegorical point guys. Is that hard to understand?

Does that defense against racism work in court either?

What was the topic again?

Yep, smokie, i am reading about Swissmen and guns, and i wonder where is the nexus..

Oh well

It was an allegorical point guys. Is that hard to understand?

Does that defense against racism work in court either?

What defense. It is an allegory. Not a defense or anything.

What was the topic again?

Yep, smokie, i am reading about Swissmen and guns, and i wonder where is the nexus..

Oh well

It was an allegorical point guys. Is that hard to understand?

Does that defense against racism work in court either?

I think you just caused friendly fire... Better aim next time.

Yes well....as an illustration of how close we get to the reality of life on here CMK you are correct.

Certainly in the sense of how diverse we all are regardless of our culture or ethnic diversity.

What about those Swiss people who do not keep guns in their home?

The point is that we know its wrong to keep guns in the home, and we pretend that we are better-educated than the Swiss. So regardless of the sins of some Swiss people, when a Swiss person reproves us for our behaviour, we should accept and address those aspects of our behaviour that we know to be wrong.

Most Swiss men between age 20 and 30 are required to belong to the militia, they are issued rifles that they must keep in their homes at all times. Officers also have handguns to keep at home. How can it be wrong when their government compels them to keep the guns? After their service is over, they can keep the guns, but they have the semi-auto mode disabled.

I doubt there are any nations in the world more civilized and broad-minded than the Swiss.

The Swiss and guns was an allegorical point.

I guess some of our members lack the sophistication and education that we take for granted in the West. Maybe we should have used a parable rather than an allegory. Though I fear that many amongst us lack the religious education to understand how to interpret a parable. So often, our bigotries and prejudices are based not only on a misunderstanding of foreigners, but of ourselves as well

SC

I don't see us progressing any further. If you haven't gotten it by now, no obscure talk about gun ownership among the Swiss is going to help.