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Comment Re:Conversation derailed (Score 1) 1063

The Swiss gun issue is entirely different than the US. Just about every Swiss household has a gun, however it is a government-issued weapon for military service. Not only is it locked up at all times, there is also a lot of training and oversight that goes with it. By contrast, anybody with a valid id and money in their pocket can get a gun of some kind in the US without difficulty.

Comment Re:Why is this creepy? (Score 1) 278

Interestingly enough, a growing number of their employees are interns on the college program. They actually pay for the privilege of a menial wage job with crazy hours. Subtract the Disney name and pixie dust, any self-respecting college kid would tell you to pound sand if you told them that they could pay for privilege of flipping burgers or hawking merchandise for bargain basement wages.

Comment Re:Diminishing returns (Score 1) 1719

Those homicides are the reason we have security gaurds with guns at the entrances to Banks and not elementry schools.

Aside from an armed courier making cash drops, I've never seen armed guards at any of the US banks I've been in. Bank personnel are trained not to resist robbers, just cooperate and get them out of there quickly.

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