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
When the guys with rifles kick-in the door.
Just so!
IIRC, there is universal military service in Israel; IOW, most men and women are trained in the use of military small arms.
Is that still the case?