Americans are not at all ‘regulated’. In fact, quite the opposite. We have become weak and dependent, unable to even make our own stuff in a free market, as government has shut us down through regulation. Hope I’m wrong. Maybe the next world war will clear the air. It’s coming and as a people we remain unable to cope without crying to government for everything, which is what ‘they’ want. I enjoyed your writings on this subject and hope others such as yourself are willing to step up and teach what needs to be. Thank-you. 

What the Switz and hate to admit this but allot of my fellow Americans don’t know is that the 2nd Amendment  was made to protect against tyranny (abuse of government) ” a well regulated militia be necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and to bear arms shall not be infringed, Founding fathers statements on the 2nd amendments were clear on this; Militia ( every able bodied man) State: nation, keep: own, bear: carry, shall not be infringed ( To destroy or hinder; as, to infringe efficacy.) Noah webster 1828 dictionary. History also tells us what is Militia, war 1812 with great Britain  battle of New Orleans where normal armed citizens (militia) took up arms and fought beside our regulars against the British  and also in the revolutionary war of America, actually biggest force that we had in revolutionary war was the people themselves that was bigger than the regulars of our army.

So the 2nd amendment was there for armed people to group up and train, like we are doing now, you can see it on you tube videos American Militia groups; that is our right under the 2nd amendment. So here is something from one of our judge a saying “My
excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.
The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid
stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming
until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision,
one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all
other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for
reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the
courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees*.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them
unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Judge
Kozinski silveira
v. lockyer

too long to explain more, but our system is voluntary  as in the Switzerland its mandatory  not saying its bad, I actually think it helped you maintain discipline and a sense of duty to preserve your country. But our constitution  the whole foundation of the USA is to have the smallest government as possible without it being anarchy, and yet government has grown to gigantic size and is becoming tyrannical, so to the switz, keep your gov the way it is and don’t let it get into entangling alliance, because my founding fathers warned us about entangling alliance, but  us Americans failed to listen.