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Actually, it’s even worse… or better. Since Switzerland doesn’t have a standing army as such, all men have to do military service (though there are ways to avoid it). After finishing, they have to take the assault rifle home with them (in case they ever need to defend the country). Most men in Switzerland have an assault rifle in their care. That’s why you can buy guns—you can’t really do anything with them since everyone is already armed with a better weapon.

There are approximately 27.6 civilian firearms per 100 residents in Switzerland!

add the relatively minimal level of cultural enrichment they have been subjected to.

Switzerland >90%, United States 63.44%

This is very restrictive compared to USA…you only need permission for machine guns and things like hand grenades (and suppressors and few other oddball guns) in almost every state (save Californians which isn’t really part of the USA). For everything else it is compulsory for the government to permit sale of firearms…even the permissioned guns like machine guns are compulsory sale, it’s just that there is a tax that must be paid first. Thats right: every American has the ability to buy a machine gun (but nobody can afford them as relatively recent laws require special occupation taxes for making new machine guns and old machine guns that exempt from the new laws are in short supply).