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Hamas Massacres: The New Face of Gun Control
American Thinker ^ | 21 Oct, 2023 | Hank Vanderbeek

Posted on 10/21/2023 6:16:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The lesson of October 7 is clear: Never ever give up your guns, because the minute you do, you become a helpless victim.

On October 7, the day Hamas attacked Israel, Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, a 25-year-old security coordinator at the Kibbutz Nir Am settlement located near the Gaza Strip, saved lives because she had a gun. After the kibbutz came under attack, Inbal hurriedly opened the armory and distributed guns to the twelve-member security team.

She caught the Hamas murderers unawares because they were not expecting to meet armed resistance. Lieberman killed five terrorists while the others gunned down twenty-five before the Israeli Defense Force arrived. Because of her actions, Nir-Am was the only settlement bordering the Gaza Strip that did not suffer Israeli casualties during Hama’s attack.

The number of Israelis killed in the terrorist attack is over 1,400. How many of those deaths could have been averted had more Israelis owned guns? Israel has draconian gun-control laws, worse than those in New York City. Only three percent (3%) of Israeli citizens own guns (compared to about thirty-two percent (32%) of U.S. citizens).

The NY Daily News reports that less than one percent (about 0.5%) of New York City residents have legal handguns. Jews comprise approximately nine percent (9%) of New York City's population, the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel.

New York City is trying ridiculously hard to keep guns away from the residents with its draconian gun “safety” laws including unconstitutional, vague, and broad no-carry zones. New York declared much of the city to consist of sensitive locations where legally permitted guns are outlawed. Times Square and Central Park will be gun-free sensitive locations. Gun-free meaning only those bent on murder and mayhem will be carrying a gun.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; hamas; hamasmassacres; hamaswar; israel; leftism
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1 posted on 10/21/2023 6:16:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The elitist politicians must feel like gods. They have a security detail and the average citizen is disarmed.


2 posted on 10/21/2023 6:16:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Stern said: “But what I'm talking about right now is the guilt of disarming a population in face of terrorism that is unthinkable and that is evil, and they're going to have to pay when their day of judgment comes. Whether it's in front of a judge or whether it's in front of God, each and every person who wrote those laws and who enforced those laws is going to have to pay for their responsibility for all that blood that was spilled because they disarmed those people and didn't give them the ability to defend themselves.”
3 posted on 10/21/2023 6:27:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"..Jews comprise approximately nine percent (9%) of New York City's population, the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel.."

And here I was thinkin they were "smarter" people.. 😆😁

I hafta wonder what a safe/danger matrix chart between the Jewry of Israel vs NYC would look like. (Think Hot/Crazy matrix.)

4 posted on 10/21/2023 6:30:18 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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The libbies are concerned that they can’t bring a million Palestinian “refugeez” into America without first confiscating all the firearms and ammunition in America. They’re going to need to get the knives too.


5 posted on 10/21/2023 6:34:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Palestinians are not "refugeez". They are muslim terrorists. Remember 9/11/2001.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Never ever give up your guns”

Seems to me the Democrats plans are to destroy the Middle Class by forcing them to support millions of illegals and then disarm the general population and then “Hello Totalitarian Government”


6 posted on 10/21/2023 6:35:20 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Is there some tactical demographic reason for the gun restrictions or is just typical lib dog squeeze about guns? I have yet to hear anyone make the demographic case. “We game played it out, and determined semiauto rifles for the general populace would actually cause more deaths in an invasion type scenario because we can’t trust armed segments of our citizenry to fight on our side” probably isn’t something too many pols would like to admit if true, though. Israel has a 20% arab population, not sure what% of them are muslim.

They accept foreign military aid for their defense systems, I don’t begrudge them this. But it seems like allowing their populace to effectively arm themselves would be a pretty cheap way to at least have a fighting chance when guys with rifles knock on the door. Maybe they wouldn’t need as much foreign military aid now if oct 7th would have been different through the defensive use of small arms.

Freegards


7 posted on 10/21/2023 6:49:16 AM PDT by Ransomed
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when guys with rifles knock on the door...or

When the guys with rifles kick-in the door.

8 posted on 10/21/2023 6:58:52 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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The difference is that, even now, it will still be virtually impossible for the average Israeli to get a weapon, especially a rifle and they are limited to possess only 100 rds of ammo, annually.
Ukraine gave an AK47 or AK74 to anyone that showed up and, I heard, 500 rds.


9 posted on 10/21/2023 7:11:41 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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I was based in and around Israel in the late 80s and two things struck me: how small the country was -it was an easy drive from Rafah to the Lebanese border in daylight on one day. The second thing that struck me was how pervasive the casual carrying of firearms by the IDF was - they were everywhere, every bus stop, every crossroad. The families I knew had firearms in their homes and because of their prior army service, they knew how to use them

What changed? Why had readiness dropped to the point that of all the towns/kibbutzim and the music festival (!) that were attacked, only one of them had a security team leader with the presence of mind to prepare for battle?

Where were the IDF or the police? You would think that anyone with any intelligence at all would have suspected that the surrounding violent enemies could attack from any direction, at any time.

Who dropped the ball?

10 posted on 10/21/2023 7:19:26 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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A picture is required for ALL Hamas terrorist-killing heroines...


11 posted on 10/21/2023 7:34:04 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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“Who dropped the ball?”

The people dropped the ball. They became accustomed to seeing armed people around and surrendered their security to that illusion and allowed the politicians to pass restrictive gun control laws. Those laws are being relaxed now and the gun shops are doing record setting sales. Hamas is probably going to be named “Salesman of the Year” just like Odumbo was back in the day.


12 posted on 10/21/2023 7:34:42 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: MtnClimber
Never ever give up your guns, because the minute you do, you become a helpless victim.

Yep. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

13 posted on 10/21/2023 7:40:02 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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If there is any population that should have known better, it is the Jews.
14 posted on 10/21/2023 7:49:18 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Lieberman killed five terrorists while the others gunned down twenty-five before the Israeli Defense Force arrived.

It would be pleasant if the dead inbreds were anointed with pork fat after being assisted into hell.

15 posted on 10/21/2023 8:18:29 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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I’m waiting for Biden to cite the case of the little old Israeli lady that plied her attackers with snacks before she was rescued.


16 posted on 10/21/2023 8:22:46 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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If there is any population that should have known better, it is the Jews.

YEP


17 posted on 10/21/2023 9:13:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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18 posted on 10/21/2023 9:14:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If you knock over bowling pins with a bowling ball, it’s fun.
If you knock somebody in the head with a bowling ball, it’s a deadly weapon.
Stop bowling ball violence!


19 posted on 10/21/2023 10:05:45 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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If you knock somebody in the head with a bowling ball, it’s a deadly weapon. Stop bowling ball violence!

Take the Skinheads bowling.

20 posted on 10/21/2023 10:08:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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