his gun. the truth is, many gun owners attitudes in switzerland are very different from the nra. ursula lutz, the pistol-packing s septuagenarian loves to shoot, but she s not interested in looser gun laws like in america. i don t want people walking the streets with the guns. up next, what to make of all of these lessons from all over the world. my own thoughts, coming up. everything was so fresh in the beginning. but that plug quickly faded. luckily there s new febreze plug. it cleans away odors and freshens for 1200 hours. breathe happy with new febreze plug. up here at the dewar s distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it s the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar s. double aged for extra smoothness.
on this day at her club, she hits the bull s-eye 18 out of 20 times. not bad for someone in her 70s. i was very surprised, yes. i never did it. even the youngsters here are expert marksmen. dave herbert was all of 10 years old when we met him in 2013 and he started training two years before. his advice for the inexperienced. don t fidget while shooting. despite the swiss people s enthusiasm for guns, gun homicide rates are much lower than in the united states, over 19 times lower in 2015, according to gunpolicy.org. supporters of gun rights in america have claim that the swiss proved one of their main points. lots of guns does not necessarily mean lots of gun violence. but that is not the whole story here in switzerland.
. we have done virtually nothing. we hear a flurry of reasons why some contradicting the others, what they have in common is a remarkable lack of evidence or fact. so we ve tried in this program to bring facts to bear on a debate that is usually high on emotion and conviction, but low on evidence. we hear that regulations would never work. so we went all over the world and found many interesting regulations and ideas that do work. people say, well, america is different, because it already has many guns. true. but so do switzerland and australia. the ladder has a gun culture very similar to america s. and yet as we saw in the aftermath of its own newtown-like massacre, australia
switzerland s annual field shooting competition in the world. towns and villages across the country stage tests of marksmanship families bring the kids. and after the competition, there s a gigantic party. one festival in the town of salvana was especially boisterous. the winners of each event would cheer wildly. and the champion of the prestigious 300-meter competition known to all as the shooting king was wheeled out triumphantly to the tune of cow bells. switzerland is by many measures a gun lover s paradise. according to one estimate, the swiss rank in the top 20 in the world, with 28 guns per 100
peopl people. ready, fire! why is switzerland armed to the teeth? well, thanks to a tradition that dates back to the dawn of the nation. it s citizen militias that form its army. all able-bodied men from farmers to financiers serve at least 245 days in the militia. they re all trained to shoot and most of them keep their guns at home. militiamen can hone their skills at their local shooting clubs. gun appreciation societies that boast more than 100,000 members and offer classes, competition, and camaraderie. we do competitions together and we are young people and we are older people. pistol-packing ursula lutz has been shooting for most of her life.