Also, from what I have read, they are armed to the teeth. More firearms there per capita than anywhere else in the world.

you read wrong. the suisse are not a race of superwarriors and neither are they particularly well armed.

finland blows them away and we blow finland away. so do the israelis.

Remember that each household is issued a full auto assault rifle, and the ammo and training to go with it.

that do not scare a terrorist. the terrorist just killed hundreds of innocents while engaging fsb/omon/spetsnaz/mvd/dvd troops. do you really think they are intimidated by reservists???

More guns in schools = no terrorist would make it in alive.

this i agree with. at the very least, they would have to assault their way in. of a more practical vein, the issue is better addressed as to how can we kill them all before they enter the united states.  



Researchers found that the 15 EU countries have an average gun ownership rate of 17.4 guns per 100 people. While that figure is significantly lower than that in the United States, where ownership rates are climbing to one gun per person, individual European countries are taking up gun ownership at rates nearly as fast as the US. Germans, for example, are buying almost as many new guns per capita as Americans.

The report also said that firearm regulations are most strict in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and EU candidate country Poland. Officials across the continent agree that illegal or unregistered guns greatly outnumber known firearms, the researchers said.

Finland has the highest per capita rate of official firearm ownership in the EU at 39 per 100 people, largely due to the Scandinavian country?s hunting tradition. But France and Germany aren?t far behind at 30 guns per 100 population. France has more legal handguns than Denmark, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Poland combined.

The survey found that the US has by far the largest number of publicly-owned firearms in the world, Associated Press (AP) reported.

But the survey found that Europeans are more heavily armed than commonly believed while there are far fewer small arms in Afghanistan and sub-Saharan Africa than previously estimated.

According to the independent survey, the crackdown on terrorism after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US ?had little effect on the size of the global stockpile of 639 million known small arms,? AP said.

The survey said its estimate of the global value of small arms production remains unchanged at about $7.4 billion?with the United States and Russia accounting for more than 70% of production. The estimate of the legal small arms trade?4 billion a year?also remains the same, with the EU dominating the international export market.

The country with the second-highest gun ownership is Yemen, with between 33 and 50 firearms per 100 people, followed by Finland. The 15 countries of the EU have an estimated 84 million firearms. Of that, 67 million (80%) are in civilian hands. With a total EU population of 375 million people, this amounts to 17.4 guns for every 100 people.




the suisse own a mere 42,857 firearms per 100,000 residents. the united states is above 85,000 firearms per 100k residents...and that's just the known firearms.