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What are Cyprus doing right and Canada wrong?
My hypothesis was that it's to do with National Service and being a nation on a war footing.... A recognition of the need for weapons combined with a reasonable level of discipline and training in their use...
I then looked for where Israel sit in the graph - this debunked my theory....
(I once took a train from Tel Aviv to Rehovot and was shocked by the crazy number of serious weaponry toted by young men and women alike - I requested an explanation from a soldier and was told it's part of public life with discipline instilled from childhood - every kid grows up knowing their dad's got an Uzi, but it's in a safe place and would only ever be used in service of the state).
Rik_Van_Looy-
Sounds very similar to Switzerland then.
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I once took a train from Tel Aviv to Rehovot and was shocked by the crazy number of serious weaponry toted by young men and women alike
They are not personally owned. Will be travelling to/from compulsory national service in armed forces, and taking their officially issued guns with them.
spenceey
chez_jay
Interesting graph. What are Cyprus doing right and Canada wrong?