Switzerland is not quite as perfect as people like to claim. The gun ownership is high, but the rate of gun deaths is considered high for Europe too.

7 per 100k for Switzerland versus 12 per 100k for the US.

Compare this to 2.33 for France, 1.13 for Italy, 1.04 for Germany, 0.57 for Spain, and 0.2 for the UK.

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You’re right about mass shootings in a sense though, there are very very few. However, the reason is because they have a significantly different regulatory landscape than the US does. For example, the Swiss have mandatory military service and all officers have to stay in reserve until their 30s; throughout this time they have to keep and maintain their service firearm. So pretty much every adult is trained very well to be careful and safe around firearms. There are also no fully automatic weapons allowed outside the military, and the carry-permits and background checks are much stricter than America’s. The gun “culture” in Switzerland pretty much only consists of sport-shooting enthusiasts, you know the regulated olympic rifle stuff shooting holes through paper. People don’t “love guns” there like the Americans do.

Overall it’s a very different story than the US.