“That they just don’t allow their regular civilian populace effective small arms for their own protection is wild, considering what they have all around them and how much they rely on foreign military aid for high tech weapon systems. Seems like allowing your regular citizens to arm themselves would be a pretty cheap means of defense.”
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In the early ‘90s, I gave someone serious consideration to the idea of moving to Israel. However, I have always been very interested in exercising my Second Amendment rights, and when I found out what their policies were, I decided that I will live here and visit there. While there always seem to be people around with rifles in the big cities, those are people who are active duty or traveling somewhere, but the average citizen is at the mercy of those who do not wish them well, and dependent upon others for their defense. I choose not to voluntarily put myself in that position.
Israel desperately needs to do a 180 on its firearms policies. It has proven itself in capable of protecting its citizens, so the only alternative is to let their citizens defend themselves, in addition to whatever protection, the government can reasonably and effectively provide against invasion, by conventional armies, and against rockets and missiles.
The only thing I can think of is that they gamed it out and arming their 20% or so arab population loses more lives in an invasion type scenario because segments would be fighting on the wrong side. I guess maybe they just don’t have the political will to restrict ownership of effective small arms to their regular Jewish civilian population. But who knows, they certainly don’t seem to bring any of this up publicly.
Freegards