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“A Dude From The Rainy Left Coast” asks if I would prefer to live in a world with no gun controls or one with reasonable gun controls, and why. We had a world with no gun controls, once. A world in which you could hop a coastwise trader in New Orleans, and get off in any port north of Guyana. With your life preserver hanging on your belt, and without as much as a raised eyebrow from anyone. A world where wide areas of the world had four or five murders a year for every million population. Most as a...

Arms smuggling from Egypt to the PA via Gaza has reached catastrophic proportions, Israeli security experts say. Hundreds of weapons, thousands of bullets, and tremendous amounts of other ammunition make their way every day via the tunnels under Rafiach to Hamas and Islamic Jihad storehouses in Khan Yunis and Gaza City. Egypt is doing little to stop the smuggling, and the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to stop it. The PA is in fact ignoring all evidence of terrorist preparations for the end of the hudna ceasefire. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists practice shooting and other military activity in broad...