Israel, Self Defense And Guns
BY Herschel Smith
10 years ago
There had been recent reports of Israelis arming up with baseball bats, knives and clubs in expectation of the coming “intifada.” Then this happened.
“They stormed the synagogue and shouted, ‘God is great!’ in Arabic and started killing people with axes and knives,” said a man in disbelief, holding his head in his hands. “They are animals!” The profoundly incongruous juxtaposition of a sacred house of worship and the violent mass murder that two Palestinian terrorists perpetrated there on Tuesday morning transformed a picturesque and peaceful Jewish neighborhood in western Jerusalem into a scene from a horror film.
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“There were people hacked with axes on the floor screaming,” said Ezra Batzri, a 24-year-old yeshiva student.
“I heard seven gunshots, and people were running in all different directions. The cops came and told us to go back home because they thought one of the [terrorists] was still out there.”
The attackers were in fact armed with a gun, and five people are dead. Thus far the Israeli response is to ease restrictions on guns.
Israel is to ease controls on carrying weapons for self-defence after a deadly Palestinian attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said on Tuesday.
“In the coming hours, I will ease restrictions on carrying weapons,” he said in remarks broadcast on public radio, indicating it would apply to anyone with a licence to carry a gun, such as private security guards and off-duty army officers.
Aharonovitch did not elaborate, but it is believed that under the planned changes security personnel would be allowed to carry their arms even when off duty.
So it isn’t really easing gun control. It’s just allowing those who are armed anyway to carry in public when off duty. Apparently, only on-duty security personnel can carry weapons. And as for the advertized ease on gun control, it’s a lie, and even Uncle misinterpreted the headlined advertizement.
So it’s back to rocks, sticks, kitchen knives and baseball bats for the poor Israelis. Not much to rely on when the terrorists have guns, no?
Governments who prohibit means of self defense hate their own people. It’s as simple as that.
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