guns, guns, guns, guns, guns...
i'd not feel safer if in my country everybody who wouldn't be a total asshole could have a gun.
there is just no logical reason for that for me, there are no terror attacks (the only i remember was done by an atheist that went totally mental, went to a restaurant and shot 8 people blank to the head last year) - he had couple of pistols - all legally held.
switzerland is cool, in some ways i really love that country, for example they are smart enough that they have to have their rifles locked in the safe and at home. i dunno what is the law about regular sidearms and how many people have it etc. though.
if i were in israel where terror attacks are a daily bread, i'd like people to have guns - in such country i think citizens carrying guns in big numbers makes a really good sense. luckily i'm not in israel (yet). in a few years maybe in some very politically correct
european countries it could start to make a logical sense too.
the only pro i see in arming the civil population is if some politician gets crazy and starts to limit people's liberties that he can be gunned down easily by some real martyr. unluckily it works the other way around too, but in this case i'd "give it a shot" for sure.