Government and Gun Control

"Since independence in the fourteenth century, the Swiss have been required to keep and bear arms, and since 1515, have had a policy of armed neutrality. Its form of government is similar to the one set up by our Founders -- a weak central government exercising few, defined powers having to do mostly with external affairs and limited authority over internal matters at the canton (state) and local levels."

-- Benedict D. LaRosa
historian, author

Source: Gun Control: A Historical Perspective, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 49 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997).

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benedict.LaRosa.Quote.449A