Black sheep with no guiding light

Because I know my readers come here primarily to find in-depth, sophisticated commentary on the major European elections, I'll say this: The Swiss People's Party's infamous sheep-themed election poster strikes me as badly designed. The black sheep appears so darned sad about being excluded and the white sheep show no emotion whatsoever. Who looks at this tableau and doesn't sympathize with the victim?

Small Arms Survey 2007

YLE reports on this year's Small Arms Survey:

On a per-capita basis, the United States has the world's most heavily armed citizenry, with 90 guns per 100 people, followed by Yemen with 61 per 100 people, and then Finland [with 56].

[...] Other countries with high per capita levels of private firearms are Switzerland (46), Iraq (39), Canada (31), Sweden (31) and Germany (30).

Blam! Blam! Once again we give it to the wussy Swiss with both barrels. Suomi! Suomi! Suomi! ...

Ahem. To make a serious point for a change, it seems to me that there are two leading causes for high incidence of private firearms: either the place is a mess to the point that the option of shooting at other people starts to look good, or lots of hunters live there. It can be both, of course.

Another thing the figures show is that high per capita gun levels can be reached in countries with fairly strict gun control laws.