re: The Elephant in the Room

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At no point did he say Switzerland's laws were more effective.

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So he's arguing that their gun ownership rate regardless of the hoops you have to jump through to own a gun in that country are somehow emblematic of the failure of strict gun laws?

English isn't your first language, is it?

it's not the restriction of guns that allows criminals to kill innocents...it's the restriction of innocent's Lawful Rights to kill criminals that allows criminals to even exist in any number. The altruistic and tolerant State labels such actions as 'vigilantism' and inflicts severe punishment on vigilantes. However, at a given point of tolerant-based and painful consequence, the (tolerant) Law will be rejected, nullified or even rebelled against. From the Left, BLM's attack on Cops is an example. We have not seen this from the Right. Yet. But we will lest the Rule of Law be enforced.

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It's lazy to blame these types of events on guns when other heavily armed countries (Switzerland) don't have the same problems.

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Switzerland is a homogeneous society

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Let's copy Switzerland's gun laws exactly, since you think they're effective in preventing gun violence.

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Let's copy Chicago's gun laws exactly, since you think they're effective in preventing gun violence.

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Switzerland may be heavily armed but their process of obtaining and retaining a gun is waaaaay more restrictive than in the US

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I’m pretty sure they also have the same rules for storage in your home like Germany does.

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Let's copy Chicago's gun laws exactly, since you think they're effective in preventing gun violence.

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If you've ever read any works by FA Hayek, bamaAtl is exhibit A of someone who suffers from "the fatal conceit"

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Blaming guns distracts from asking the questions that could actually solve the underlying issue and amounts to confusing the symptom with the actual cause.

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Troof. Events like this show that he only thing that keeps us from mass chaos and death is the quality and character of the citizenry.

Remember that next time a leftists tell us “character doesn’t matter”.

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Thus, what is that underlying difference? Is it mental illness? Is it general American stress levels? Is it [insert whatever you want here]?

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The underlying difference is that America has a different demographic make-up than Switzerland (a larger underclass, for one) and a more violence prone history.

Basically, guns in the hands of members of polite society will not induce more violence. But making them available to the violence-prone underclass will. It's a tough distinction and it's not easy to draw a line in the sand, but ghettos don't become less dangerous when more people are armed. The violence gets worse.

Was this a mental health issue? Brother did not say so.

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what does it tell you that we have so many people in this country who apparently can't have a firearm without going on a murder spree?

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Just not supported by the data. So few gun owners go on shooting sprees in this country, that while each is tragic, they are statistically insignificant.