Posted on 12/01/2018 11:36:37 AM PST by Eleutheria5
A coalition of women's rights organizations filed an appeal to the High Court of Justice arguing that Israel's recently-relaxed gun laws are causing more women to be murdered.
According to Ynet, the ten different organizations say that a recent uptick of murders are the direct result of a decision by Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan to allow veterans of IDF infantry units to obtain personal handgun permits.
In addition, the appeal claims that 40% of all women are murdered in Israel by handguns compared to only 28% in the OECD.
"There is a clear and proven connection between the extent of weapons licensed by the public and the scope of suicides and murders, especially of women by their families," wrote the appeal.
Women's Lobby head Michal Zera added that "twenty-four women have been murdered since the beginning of the year and the lives of about one-third of the women murdered over the past seven years have been killed by firearms".
"The facts are that weapons in the public sphere lead to more violence and murder, more suicides and more accidents with weapons that charge the lives of children and adults."
In August, Israel significantly relaxed its regulations governing gun licenses in a move that instantly allowed hundreds of thousands of Israelis to acquire a firearm.
Following a decision by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, any Israeli who underwent level 07 rifle training in the IDF can now apply for a gun license. All infantry soldiers are certified as 07, in addition to all combat squad commanders and the majority of IDF officers....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Socialists always are.
They have the mags, but they aren’t supposed to have them in the rifles unless they have to shoot.
Right after that LV shooting when the MSMLSD was all up in arms about AR’s I bought a Ruger 556 (not really intending to) from Sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore for around $550. Then I proceeded to buy from them Pmag40’s with enough rounds to fill them along with a speed loader. I have about forty of them now all shipped to the house FedEx (ammo and mags) dropped off on my folk’s porch. I tell my friends about it who live in CA where removable mags are outlawed and have to buy their ammo from an FFL dealer - no more Walmart for them.
Trump’s bumpstock ban may be a big joke on gungrabbers.
Owners have to get rid of their bumpstocks? How is that going to be enforced and at what level?
House to house searches? Sheriff’s deputies swarming into the countryside every time something goes “rat-a-tat-tat”?
Sounds like one of them thar unfunded mandates, IMO.
That's my point. Where are the mags? Are any of them wearing clothes that would hold them? Doesn't look like it to me.
Stock just has enough room for a small cleaning kit. Rods. Some CLP, and bore brush.
Man! That photo is hot!
Its strange the first time you see it in Israel.
You’ve heard of evil geniuses, of course. These are evil morons. Give them a private cabin in the woods and some bottles of nitroglycerin to play with, and they’ll take care of themselves.
They are not in a bar, it is a food shop. Look at the picture and tell the truth.
Usually, they’re rubber-banded to the top of the receiver. At least soldiers have them there when traveling off duty. Don’t know where these women have theirs.
So the OECD’s been killing Israeli women?
Yes, there we go. Something to feed the rifle with.
Ridiculous. This is horrendous misuse of the language. I think the author is trying to say, out of the cases of women murdered in Israel, 40% are done via handgun.
Instead, the author has managed to assert that 40% of all women in Israel are murdered! (with handguns)
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Accoding to the article, veterans of IDF infantry units ability to obtain personal handgun permits has caused the uptick in womens death. So are the IDF veterans committing the murders or is the author full of shite.
...ten different organizations say that a recent uptick of murders are the direct result of a decision by Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan to allow veterans of IDF infantry units to obtain personal handgun permits.
IOW, there is no connection between those two things. Thanks Eleutheria5.
Well said. It is a favorite if truly false claim that private law abiding citizens are a serious threat to commit violent acts. It is almost always the opposite; licensed CCW holders are significantly less likely to commit violent crimes than the general population in America and I suspect this to hold true in Israel as well..
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