Rightwingers, you want Swiss Style Gun laws? OK, you also have to want Swiss style Socialized Mental Health Care
There has been a lot of romanticized talk from the rightwing gun nut-o-sphere on how Switzerland (and Israel) are some gun owners paradise.
These rightwing fantasies regarding Israel and Switzerland’s gun culture/laws are debunked by Ezra Klein’s Mythbusting: Israel and Switzerland are not gun-toting utopias, column in the WP.
But for argument’s sake let us accept the low brow understanding of Swiss gunlaws from the rightwing as being accurate and that these armed Swiss all seem well armed and well behaved.
If the right-wing wants to emulate Swiss gun laws/culture as an example then the right-wing has to acknowledge that to have a well behaved and civil society thus armed like the Swiss, then they must also accept the Swiss “socialized” (as the American right defines socialism) health care model with its heavy emphasis on mental health treatments:
By the way, Israel’s health care system is “socialized” (as the American right defines socialism), also.