armed neutrality

In Switzerland, a country where as many as one in three of its eight million inhabitants may own a weapon, a man shot three women dead and wounded two men before being shot in the chest by police and taken to the hospital.

Many [weapons] are stored in people's attics, a legacy of Switzerland's policy of creating a citizen army that can be mobilized quickly to defend its neutrality.

Armed neutrality is an interesting notion.

And, as a kind of associative PS, a newspaper that published the names of gun owners has hired armed guards to fend off any potential (armed?) backlash.