Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

[The Lawspeaker]

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Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

The key to freedom is to be able to have the ability to defend yourself &, if you dont have the tools to do that, then youre going to be at the mercy of whomever wants to put you away.

Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.

The country has a population of six million, but there are estimated to be at least two million publicly-owned firearms, including about 600,000 automatic rifles and 500,000 pistols.

This is in a very large part due to Switzerland's unique system of national defence, developed over the centuries.

Instead of a standing, full-time army, the country requires every man to undergo some form of military training for a few days or weeks a year throughout most of their lives.

Between the ages of 21 and 32 men serve as frontline troops. They are given an M-57 assault rifle and 24 rounds of ammunition which they are required to keep at home.

Once discharged, men serve in the Swiss equivalent of the US National Guard, but still have to train occasionally and are given bolt rifles. Women do not have to own firearms, but are encouraged to.

[The Lawspeaker]

Too bad they mix in a kind of Holocaust propaganda. But this system of national defence is what I want for my country.

[Sarmatian]

Crime rate is low in Switzerland because small self-governing population of free ethnically united people who capable and prepared to use force wherever its needed naturally clearing itself from any sort of lunatics and exploiters that can bring misery and unfairness upon ordinary folks. Resources more or less fairly distributed so there is no desperately poor people thus no basis for development of anger that drives criminal minds.

[Bobcat Fraser]

How does Mayor Bloomberg explain this? According to him, powerful guns are too dangerous and destructive to be in the hands of regular citizens. He even wanted the New York City police to strike over this, although that was against his own city's law! You can hear anti-gun activists' heads exploding when they read this article.

[Pallantides]

There was a similar system in rural Norway in the old days, farmers were required to own weapons and serve in the military. If an enemy force entered the farmers would form Militias to drive out the invaders(a good example of this is Battle of Kringen were Farmers ambushed and defeated a band of Scottish mercenaries)

[AR89]

There was a similar system in rural Norway in the old days, farmers were required to own weapons and serve in the military. If an enemy force entered the farmers would form Militias to drive out the invaders(a good example of this is Battle of Kringen were Farmers ambushed and defeated a band of Scottish mercenaries)

It was a good idea in the old times, Swiss true defence are their banks, not their soldiers (which have been very good).

[Absinthe]

I think decentralization, local administration and relatively low density of inhabitants in each region are also a big factor.

[The Lawspeaker]

I think decentralization, local administration and relatively low density of inhabitants in each region are also a big factor.

For short: we should be a bit more like Switzerland. Hmm it wouldn't hurt Greece either, I think ?

[Absinthe]

For short: we should be a bit more like Switzerland. Hmm it wouldn't hurt Greece either, I think ?

Are you serious? One of the main problems of Greece is that more than half of its population is packed in one city alone, the remaining being packed in other smaller cities, the administration of whose is centralized and hence the chaos.

One can find some small oases of cleanness and organization in small municipalities and towns where both the mayor/local administration in general as well as the inhabitants are eager to actively make their community a safer and nicer place.

It's not a coincidence that by far, the most chaotic, dirty, and dangerous municipality of Attica is the municipality of Athens itself, because it is a huge sector with very poor administration, too many inhabitants and overall lack of control over what is going on there, due to the size.

It is funny because I live on the border of two municipalities, municipality of Athens and municipality of Galatsi (the second being a much smaller area).

I live on the bad side, of course, and it's funny how one can immediately observe by standing on the sidewalk, right where the border is, that everything is cleaner, greener, neater, more organized on the other side of the sidewalk

But enough about Athens:

yes, I believe decentralization and powerful local administration is something that we can all benefit from. Plus, smaller municipalities give you the advantage of knowing your neighbours better than in chaotic large cities, and hence criminality rates stay low because one can't hide in a small area where people pretty much know each other.

[The Lawspeaker]

Are you serious? One of the main problems of Greece is that more than half of its population is packed in one city alone, the remaining being packed in other smaller cities, the administration of whose is centralized and hence the chaos.

I am serious. Switzerland also some cities but they aren't nearly as big as Athens. Greece problem is that it's overcentralised so maybe people should be encouraged to return to the countryside and create jobs there instead: decentralise the economy as well as the political system.

yes, I believe decentralization and powerful local administration is something that we can all benefit from. Plus, smaller municipalities give you the advantage of knowing your neighbours better than in chaotic large cities, and hence criminality rates stay low because one can't hide in a small area where people pretty much know each other.

So it would work in principle because Greece also has a large countryside and a lot of small islands. Athens would be a different story though so maybe there should be a different kind of government in Athens and a different style of doing things in the countryside.