Terrorist Attacks in Israel Show the Threat of a Disarmed Populace

AmmoLand ^ | October 16, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The horrific terrorist attack on unarmed Israelis near the border of Gaza shows how useful and effective militias can be against lightly armed and armored raiding forces.

Local militias are an innate response to existential threats. They are well-fitted to the nature of man.

When men lived in small communities, every man was expected to aid in the defense of the community against outside forces, which amounted to everyone outside the tribe or nation. A militia is simply local men working together to protect against the threat of others who want to kill, rape, loot and destroy. Militias can band together to form armies, but they need more training to work effectively as a larger force. When armies successfully destroy a tribe’s or nation’s enemies, people can be lulled into believing militias are not necessary or useful.

In the early history of the United States, militias were primarily needed to defend against raids by Indian tribes/other nations. A militia does not guarantee success. Militias gave a community a chance to defend themselves. With no defensive force, a community was vulnerable to raids from whoever found them an inviting target. There are many times when raiders can be defeated by a lightly armed force with relatively low levels of organization and training. Armed citizens can be a greater deterrent than police. The United States has an excellent core of people with military and reserve experience to draw on for leadership.

The primary advantage of a militia is it is always there. It is reasonably ready to respond quickly. A militia can slow down an attack and defend against a threat until a larger force can relieve it.  Police are not equipped or manned to deal with organized raids. There is roughly one police officer per several hundred citizens.

[The Great RJ]

With all the illegals from all parts of the globe pouring across our southern border unchecked, it is not difficult to believe that terrorists are among them and that sleeper cells are already formed. We should expect terror attacks on schools, hospitals and shopping malls as well as random acts of terror. In many areas our defunded police and lenient criminal justice system has allowed crime to flourish and thus they would be incapable of meeting a terrorist threat. We may well have to rely on armed citizen militias to deal with terrorists.

[Pajamajan]

Great article!

[Lockbar]

1300 dead Israeli civilians was a small price to pay for sensible gun control.

[Gritty]

1300 dead Israeli civilians was a small price to pay for sensible gun control.

I wonder if the Israeli Leftists calls this "Gun Safety" as they do in this country?

[Ransomed]

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” isn’t something too many pols would like to admit, maybe.

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.

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