Three people have been killed and seven others injured in a shooting at a factory in Switzerland

[The Straight Story]

Three people have been killed and seven others injured in a shooting at a factory in Switzerland, according to prosecutors.

A gunman struck at the wood processing plant in the town of Menznau on Wednesday morning, with police alerted at 9am.

A witness cited by local newspaper Neue Luzerner Zeitung said the gunman had opened fire in the company canteen.

Prosecutors' spokesman Simon Kopp told Swiss newspaper Blick: "There were three dead and seven injured, some of them seriously injured."

The assailant was among the dead, he added. Police confirmed the gunman was a 42-year-old employee at the factory.
Map of Switzerland The shooting happened in the Swiss town of Menznau
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The shooting comes weeks after a gunman killed three women and wounded two men in the Swiss village of Daillon, stirring a debate about Switzerland's gun laws.

Male citizens in Switzerland are allowed to retain guns after their mandatory military service.

There is no national gun register in the country, but some estimates indicate that at least one in every three of Switzerland's eight million inhabitants keeps a gun, many stored at home.

http://news.sky.com/story/1057625/swiss-shooting-three-killed-at-factory

[el_bryanto]

1. What's the gun death rate in Switzerland compared to the US?

This is a pretty terrible tragedy though.

Bryant

[samsingh]

2. i understand that swiss. also has a lot of guns per capita

[Hoyt]

3. For most part, Swiss must keep them locked up at home, cannot tote the things in public, etc.

Swiss do not have more guns per capita than the USA. That's a myth/lie that the pro-gun crowd uses to promote more guns in more places in this country.

In fact, if we had Swiss laws with regard to how many weapons one can purchase; registered ammo and having to buy it at a shooting range for target practice; how guns must be stored; almost total ban on public toting except for those in security; etc., gun cultists would throw a conniption fit.

[rustydog]

4. Their gun suicide rate is higher

their mass killings and gun murder rate is WAYYYY lower than good old American exceptionalism