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After the attack in Vienna, right-wing conservative politicians are calling for easier access to arms for the Swiss: they must defend themselves.
Should access to arms be made easier in Switzerland? Picture shows: Faston Poyet’s gun shop in the old town of Bern.
Photo: Adrian Moser (Tamedia)
«Free, law-abiding and responsible citizens must be able to defend themselves against terrorists»Nicolas Rimoldi, board member of Action for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (Auns) tweeted, after the attack in Nice on October 29. Just a few hours after Terrorattacke in Vienna he renewed his demand: Now it is necessary to bear arms in Switzerland.
As the young FDP politician emphasized upon request, the recommendations of the Federal Police Office were no longer sufficient. This warns in case of an attack: “Fborrowed, vstifle, aMake noise». In Switzerland, citizens should also be able to bear arms, in clear conditions, for example after a mental health test and a practical test.Rimoldi is convinced. Currently in Switzerland a special permit is required to carry a gun in public; this will be just granted under special conditions, for example to security personnel.
Liberalize the use of weapons
Rimoldi is supported by a nationally known advocate for the liberal use of weapons: SVP Valais National Councilor Jean-Luc Addor. Pro Tell president last tried in 2017, make the right to bear arms acceptable to parliament. Unsuccessfully. Yesterday he also reported on Twitter that he maintained his call for liberalization.
Addor is known to use a two-handed sword after such attacks. A few minutes after a St. Gallen mosque shooting in the summer of 2014, in which a 51-year-old man was killed, he linked reports on Twitter and Facebook and provided them with the headline. «We want more» (wwe want more). Therefore, the Valais cantonal court found him guilty of racial discrimination. Transferred the case to federal court – this sentence is still pending.
“However, if such a terrorist act were to occur in Switzerland, local politicians would also be willing to discuss the facilitation of the use of weapons.”
Addor currently does not want to launch a new attempt in parliament. Whenever such attacks take place abroadthe endyourself a local gun practice hardly changes anything it is convinced. When asked, he emphasizes: «However, in the event of such a terrorist act in Switzerland, local politicians would also be willing to discuss facilitating the carrying of weapons.»
But also politicians such as the national councilor of the CVP, Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter, instrumentalize the bloody event in the Austrian capital. It is barbaric how Islamist terrorists in Europe would murder innocent people, they tweeted the foreign politician and asked the question in the room: «Do some parties still want to hold the referendum against the anti-terrorism law?» Young parties, especially on the left, are collecting signatures against the toughening of the criminal law on terrorism decided by federal councils in September.
The threat of terrorism continues to grow
The Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) has confirmed its assessment of the dangerous situation after the terrorist attacks in Vienna and Nice. The terrorist threat in Switzerland remainst As Isabelle Graber of the NDB emphasizes: «In the intelligence service’s opinion, attacks on soft targets such as crowds with little organizational and logistical effort, carried out by individual perpetrators or small groups, are currently the most likely threat to Switzerland.»
