One aspect I haven’t seen mentioned so far...consider that 20%+ of the population is Arab. If anyone were able to freely own guns of any kind, that would have to hold for ALL citizens. So they’d have 20% armed potential terrorist right in their midst.
If those were to turn on the Jewish population on a signal by Iran or whomever, you’d have 100,000s dead in a matter of hours.
I hear you. I once knew a fellow who worked as a federal prison guard. He was describing a situation, and I said, “Well, FCOL, you have guns, right?”
He said, “Oh, no, if we did, that would be the whole ball game: for the prisoners to get ahold of them.”