Posted on 10/08/2023 4:14:20 PM PDT by chickenlips
As the world watches the atrocities of the past few days unfold in Israel — including Hamas terrorists going door to door to kill Israelis — it is notable that Israel does not have a U.S.-like Second Amendment and private gun ownership among Israelis is low.
The BBC reported that “Israeli gun ownership is low at about 2% of the population.” In contrast, the findings of a recent study by Rutgers University’s New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center estimated upwards of six in ten Americans own guns.
The difference, in large part, is the Second Amendment. Israelis are allowed to own guns at whatever level their government approves whereas Americans have a birthright to gun ownership that is protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Israelis are also limited in the type of firearms and quantity of ammunition they can own. The BBC observed, “Usually citizens are allowed to hold a pistol and a limit of 50 bullets.” In all but the bluest states, Americans can own almost any gun imaginable — including machine guns — and can have as much ammunition stored and ready as they can afford.
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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
Yeah, I’m surprisedthey aren’t more like us, or the Swiss...
It would appear that Israel depends on an armed perimeter at its borders in order to assure public safety.
Hopefully, they will see the folly of their ways, and reconsider their current circumstance and status.
Once Hamas had broken through the perimeter, there was no way for police, or public authorities, or civilians to defend themselves.
"You learn more from your failures than you do through your successes" - Hopefully an unfortunate lesson learned the 'hard way'.
If they don't learn from this experience and change their behavior and laws, ..it will occur again.
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.
I keep wondering why those living on hostile borders in Israel, do not have household arsenals, just for situations like what occurred this weekend? Better to go down with guns blazing than have terrorists come to your door to murder. Why unarmed civilians? I thought kindegarten teachers packed machine guns there!
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.
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