Swiss Army weapons "kill 300 people a year"

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Army_weapons_kill_300_people_a_year.html?siteSect=105&sid=7357024&cKey=1166289493000

More than 300 people are killed every year by army guns, according to a study led by the Swiss criminologist Martin Killias.

These weapons play a central role in suicides and Switzerland's grim history of family killings, said the research, published on Saturday ahead of a parliamentary debate on the subject. snip

Exactly five years ago Switzerland was shocked when a gunman shot and killed 14 people in Zug's cantonal parliament with his army rifle, before turning the gun on himself.

In the first half of 2006 there were at least six incidents where a man shot his wife or partner before turning the gun on himself. In a highly publicised case the husband of former women's ski champion Corinne Rey-Bellet killed her and her brother and seriously injuring her mother with his army pistol before killing himself.

[ulysses]

1. it's the tweezer.

[BlackVelvet04]

2. Are you sure it's not the corkscrew? n/t

[ret5hd]

3. both of you are obviously nuts...

It's the magnifying glass, you blivets!

[BlackVelvet04]

5. I don't know....

those little scissors are pretty wicked, too. ;-)

[roamer65]

4. A least they didn't kill 650,000 Iraqis...

like our weapons have.

[davepc]

6. over 200 suicides...sad

I've yet to see any hard evidence that lack of access to firearms suppress suicide rates.

Japan is the classic example. They have one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and one of the lowest rates of firearm ownership.