Switzerland has a stunningly high rate of gun ownership -but a murder rate of close to zero
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Switzerland also super homogenous and hard to immigrate into. (The key variable). Multiculturalism, not even cultural relativism which says we're all equal when clearly that's horseshit, but just plain o' demographic diversity...leads to a breakdown in society and social trust even among members of the same in-group.
They also took a strong stand against ISLAM. and expressly forbid building minarets, and broadcasting their calls to prayer an (incitement to hate everyone but islamofascists)... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Swiss_minaret_referendum)
They recognize the truth... and stand by it. think about it... they told Hitler to go fuck himself... AND HE DID. They protect banking secrecy. that is their stock in trade. nobody wants to live in a world with at least one Switzerland.
Gun ownership is almost universal. everyone has guns... what they don't have is wildly insane democrats running around. which is obviously the difference.
They have european multiculturalism with people speaking german, french and italian.
Sorry but this is a little disingenuous. There are plenty of ethnically and racially homogenous shitholes with high murder rates.
Haiti immediately comes to mind of course. But Turkey is another example - the murder rate there is 5/100k, which is 10x higher than Switzerland - and they ethnically cleansed the diversity out of Turkey in 1918.
It's not diversity perse, it's which ingredients are going into the Melting Pot. You can mix Japanese and Swiss into a city and I guarantee you're not going to see the murder rate spike. Put in Haitians and Turks and well... pack body armour.