In America, owning a gun is a constitutional right. In israel it’s a privilege. Huge difference.
Regular joe schmoes like me have to provide a reason to own a gun and they dont make it easy to get one.
I remember reading about gun ownership in Israel back around 1968. I could not believe the rules and regulations back then for citizens in a land surrounded by so many enemies.
Israel Weapon Industries makes some of the finest firearms for the American civilian market yet the average Israeli cannot own them.
I was in Israel during the second intifada. Everyone open carried. Many people had guns. I was back in Israel about a year ago. No guns in sight. What happened?
Yes imagine how it would have gone if the little cockroaches had been knocking on doors in Suburban Atlanta. 🤔
It isn’t all that hard. Until 1986 all you had to do was fill out a form get fingerprinted and pay $200 and then wait until the slow walking ATF approved the sale. In 1986 that changed significantly. You still had to do all of the above, BUT you could only buy a full auto that was made PRIOR to Reagan signing the gun control ‘86 into law. As a result the price of full auto soared. In 1981 a M60 NIB ran $2200. I look online recently and the price is around $80,000 for a used one. So while technically the average non criminal American can buy one, practically they are priced out of the reach of almost everyone honest. Gang bangers of course can buy conversions or stolen military without regard for the law.
>author implies to the reader that it is easy to purchase and own an automatic firearm in much of the USA.
Roughly 50/50 as far as the states are concerned. First, you have to find one for sale. In the Bush years, NFA firearms were plentiful. Even M2 heavy machineguns were for sale. Less so nowadays. Then you need to pay the $200 tax stamp fee, endure a fed colonoscopy and wait about a year.
It’s not difficult but you need to be patient.
Israel has opened all shooting complexes where civilian population’s weapons are stored, so that people can retrieve them and ensure their own safety.
Israel is mobilising their civilians.
https://twitter.com/etoptimist/status/1710651038985076906
This news (to me, I’ll confess) is just astonishing.
Insanity
NEVER AGAIN rings pretty hollow, doesn’t it?
Ping!
My brother lives there, and I can confirm the 1 handgun and 50 rounds rule. I was dumbfounded. People living in the territories have a bit more leeway to get a rifle, but have to jump over many hurdles to do that, despite IDF training.
I sincerely hope that they learn something from this very expensive lesson that they are going through right now, and massively change their current laws to be more similar to the ones in red states in this country. It will ultimately save many thousands of lives over the next several decades.
What many people don’t realize is that something very similar happened on the US-Mexico border on March 9, 1916. Mexican bandit/revolutionary Pancho Villa crossed the border into New Mexico and attacked the town of Columbus with 500 men.
17 Americans were killed. At least 70 of Villa’s attacking force were killed.
There was a small garrison of US troops in the town, but significant numbers of Villa’s troops were killed by heavily armed civilians.
Israel would do well to take notes and implement a 2nd Amendment of their own.
This is stunning to me. Unbelievable.
Do you like saying what you don’t like about our government? Do you like not being threatened by other countries? Do you like being ruled by laws instead of people? Do you like having the right to an attorney? ....to see a judge? ...to remain silent? ...against illegal search of your home?
All of these rights are self evident, but they rest ENTIRELY on the right “to keep and bear arms”0. Most of America’s gun-grabbing allies only get away without consequences because we protect them and provide freedom standards which they emulate.
I will bet it;s higher than think
One aspect I haven’t seen mentioned so far...consider that 20%+ of the population is Arab. If anyone were able to freely own guns of any kind, that would have to hold for ALL citizens. So they’d have 20% armed potential terrorist right in their midst.
If those were to turn on the Jewish population on a signal by Iran or whomever, you’d have 100,000s dead in a matter of hours.