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[DoNotRefill]

non-lethal weapons have much looser standards for use than lethal weapons. It's legal to use a non-lethal weapon in situations where a lethal weapon is illegal to use. Therein lies a problem. Imagine if teargas caused a certain percentage of people it was used on to die. How long would it still be considered non-lethal? and if it's reclassified as lethal, then it's much less effective than a gun, right? So where do you draw the line? And if it kills 8% of the people it's used on, well, that's not very non-lethal, is it?

BTW, I don't know if you knew this, but MOST times a gun is used to stop a crime, it isn't even fired, much less kills somebody. Pulling the gun is often enough to stop the behavior without killing the perpetrator.

Also, Switzerland has tons of guns in it. Is it a "bad" country? And if guns are NOT used in crime, is "heavy gun ownership" really a bad thing?