Who said this; "Only a disarmed people can be oppressed"?

[Furunculus]

And this; "The real purpose of this initiative is to weaken the militia army and withdraw the state's confidence in its citizens,"

No, not a yank as first impulse might lead one to presume, but rather a Swiss citizen:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...744837,00.html

The Swiss vote in a referendum this Sunday on a measure to collect military-issue weapons. The aim is to store guns in public arsenals, rather than at home -- and cut down on domestic violence. But it could end a tradition of gun ownership associated with Swiss independence and the legend of William Tell.

Switzerland is an exception to many clichés about Europe, but gun control is one of the most unexpected. In stark contrast to the neighboring European Union, and in spite of the country's placid image of cow pastures, Alpine landscapes and official neutrality in war, every third Swiss household owns a gun.

That may, however, change on Sunday, when Swiss voters decide on a measure to end a tradition of sending military-issue rifles home with reserve soldiers. Most Swiss men are reservists because Switzerland has a mandatory draft and only a small standing army. Sunday's "weapons initiative" is aimed at rounding up those weapons and storing them in public arsenals. The idea is that the weapons can be retrieved in case of war, but not used for impulsive domestic violence.

1. What do you think about Switzerland's gun policy?
2. What do you think Switzerland's answer should be?
3. What will you think about Switzerland if you don't get the answer you want?
4. How would you like your government to react if you don't get the answer you want from the Swiss?

My response:
1. Fine with me, i've been to Switzerland and met reservists who have an assault rifle at home. *shrugs*
He was the eminently respectable CTO of an international biogas equipment supplier
2. Up to them, i am not a citizen of Switzerland
3. No change, i respect their deeply representative form of democracy, and that democracy made a choice
4. No response needed, an internal matter