By Abraham Rabinovich - THE WASHINGTON TIMES - March 7 2002
'Sixty thousand additional gun permits are to be distributed to Israeli civilians as authorities loosen licensing restrictions to help fight a growing wave of terrorism.
Armed civilians have played a significant role in bringing down terrorists during the Palestinian uprising, most recently during an attack this week by a Palestinian gunman at a Tel Aviv restaurant where a wedding party was under way.
A 46-year-old civilian packing a pistol fatally shot the terrorist at close range after three persons had been killed and he had been wounded. When a radio reporter asked the man whether he was a member of the security forces, he said he was a shoe salesman. Police and Interior Ministry officials decided this week to make 60,000 more gun permits available to civilians, particularly reserve army officers and veterans of combat units.
Already, 265,000 guns are in civilian hands, particularly in border areas and the occupied territories. With terror now striking the Israeli heartland almost daily, officials decided to make more guns available there as well.'
Obviously, to Islamists words are meaningless. But to Americans and Israelis, words mean things.
You are trying and failing here. If your neighbor told the neighborhood for years that he wanted to kill you and your family, and he made every attempt to do so but had not succeed in completing the task, would you still say that his mission did not matter if your neighbors rebuked you for acting on that knowledge? Or should you ignore his mission because it's just words? LOL