It’s been a while since I looked into but I think it’s not a rule at a national level, but the canton police have significant flexibility on whether they approve applications for semi-automatic rifles and handguns. So one place might have requirements that another might not.

But for all manually operated firearms it’s pretty cruise-y.

Edit: the more I look into there’s lot of different permits with overlap, shall issue or must issue etc. Swiss bureaucracy. Etc. But I guess my point is like if a persons want a pump action shotgun or a bolt action rifle they’d get it very quickly, and be able to keep it at home with ammo, for more complicated guns it might be harder.

They have all their national service stuff but they also have surprisingly lax options for private ownership of guns and ammunition as well (basically just a background check no registries or significant restrictions). It’s just only a small number of people actually do it.

Bushnell seemed to have a lot to live for. They were happily leaving the Air Force having recognised how evil the USA was, had posted about planning to study and other careers. There's some speculation Bushnell might have been trans (usernames, posts and subreddits visited). Things seemed good and there was no concerns about their mental health from friends or family. The genocide in Palestine seems to genuinely effect them to the point where self-immolation seemed to be the only option. All very devastating.

The Hundred year was was basically a French Civil war given most of the English Monarchy and Nobility were Normans. So I think it's still French.

This pictures calls to me like the void.

I think self immolation is a intensely contradictory thing.

Because on the one hand I don't want people to do it, at all, I don't want the people who have the courage and the compassion to do it, to do it and die. These people were comrades. And it often feels like it doesn't even tip the scale against the atrocities that it is in protest of.

On the other the people who do are heroes. I'm not religious but while we argued about Bushnell here, the Palestinians, the Yemeni, all the oppressed people fighting this genocide immediately recognised Bushnell as a hero and martyr. It shows the oppressed people that even in the heart of the Great Satan, people support their righteous cause.

Like it's complicated and I would like it if the cause of it was not happening, rather than just self-immolation was not happening.

Nearly every photo showing the DPRK as having no lights at night is fake to some degree.

Now it is important to know that the North and Eastern parts of the DPRK are very mountainous so you are only going to see light on the Western/North West Coastal side mostly. That's because that's where all the people are.

But generally the pictures shown are from when there are blackouts, which still happen being a country under embargo, but it's not all the time. Secondly they are usually composites, so they've combined multiple blackouts to make it look like there's no lights. It like if you overlapped a whole lot of satellite photos post hurricanes and storms in the USA to suggest the USA was worse off in those regions.

Also photoshop and other exaggeration measures.

I'm going to almost die in a kinky upside down water boarding bondage scenario here.

Oh yeah, but now that as a Maoist. Calling it the F(NS)DA(P) or something

Bit character, guy who is adamant ACAB includes government bodies like the FDA.

It was a thing in Australia and I remember if you did it the schools wouldn't buy the books back. But it was damned if you do, damned if you don't, because they wouldn't buy back damaged books either.

The more realistic estimates are that 400,000 people out a population just over 2million are dead. That's 20%. It's so evil.