As attacks spiral, gun sales soar

Boston Globe ^ | 4/6/2002 | By Anthony Shadid, Globe Staff,

[Bad~Rodeo]

TEL AVIV - Near a sign declaring ''Winchester, what America shoots,'' Gil Furman loaded shining rounds into a Colt .45, preparing to fire his newly refurbished pistol at targets whose silhouettes were black on white but whose real identity was obvious to anyone.

[dennisw]

''My father tells me that if I go to the West Bank, I should carry it,'' Furman, a 38-year-old teacher, said late last month, sheepishly cradling his gun. ''If I need it and I don't have it, I'll ask myself why I didn't bring it.''

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Of course you should take it!!!! Are you nuts!!!

[dennisw]

Armed Jews are good Jews!

The Islamics are carrying and so should you!

  If you want on or off me Israel/MidEast ping list please let me know. Via Freepmail is best way.............

[xm177e2]

Of course you should take it!!!! Are you nuts!!!

Well, it could always leap out of his hands and shoot him, all by itself. At least, that's what Sarah Brady says. She wouldn't lie, and lots of American Jews like her, so maybe the Israelis should listen to her.

And the VPC says "every handgun is aimed at you." It's a shame the Israelis have degenerated to this level, that they're actually--yuck!--carrying guns with them. It looks like the Palestinians have already won. </sarcasm>

[Leisler]

The Boston Glop used the word, "leftist?" How come they never use that term to discribe the Democrats here?

[CDHart]

Can anyone tell me why the Arab types always run around with their faces masked? Reminds one of the Ku Klux Klan.

Carolyn

[Bogie]

Good question.

I was listening to Radio Havana Cuba a few years ago, as they were interviewing a writer for the Boston Globe.

Good question indeed!

[xm177e2]

Not everyone sees that logic.

Thanks for bolding this obnoxious passage. The Globe refers to the arguments of gun-grabbers as "logic," and says the pro-gun people are just too stupid to get it. Media bias arrrrrrgggh--of course, I can't really blame them. The anti-gun reporters have real reason to be angry, all of their arguments about gun control go flying out the window in a situation like Israel.

[dennisw]

Can anyone tell me why the Arab types always run around with their faces masked? Reminds one of the Ku Klux Klan.

Now it's sort of a Muslim fashion statement....
But the real purpose is to make it much harder for Israel/IDF to get a handle on who is who among them.

    Who are these guys????>>>>>>>  

 

Palestinian gunmen from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah fraction parade in the West Bank town of Hebron Tuesday Jan. 15, 2002 during a rally in the memory of Skaker Hassouni, a Palestinian man shot and killed by Israeli forces Jan. 12, 2001. The two largest Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, said Tuesday they will stick to a truce with Israel despite the killing of a West Bank militia leader in a bomb explosion widely attributed to Israel. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

 

Armed Palestinians attend the funeral of a slain comrade in the West Bank city of Hebron December 26, 2001. A member of the military wing of Fatah was killed in an exchange of fire during the Christmas Eve attack in which Palestinian gunmen critically wounded a Jewish settler in the West Bank, eight days after the Palestinian President Arafat ordered a halt to strikes against Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

 

A Palestinian gunman from the militant group Hamas's military wing Izz el-Din el-Qassam fires in the air near the house of one of the dead Palestinian attackers in Rafah south of Gaza Strip, claiming responsibility for the attack on an Israeli post January 9, 2002. The attack in which the two Palestinian attackers and four soldiers were killed broke a relative lull in more than 15 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

[BooBoo1000]

What is this thing of shooting their weapons into the air?.Don't they know those bullets will come down somewhere?

[nygoose]

What program do I need to open your pictures? Thanks

[dennisw]

Right click and select show picture. .................... The pictures are old so maybe they don't show for you. They do show for me!

[Copernicus]

Thanks

[GailA]

It might go off in his holster...TN state Sen Thelma Harper would argure.

Personally, I don't go in to the war zone of Memphis with out my Bersa.

[Woahhs]

''The Arabs act with their heart, not their head. This is the problem. You and I can speak and disagree. With them, it's not the same.''

I always wondered why the media invariably sides with the Palestinians.

[johniegrad]

Almost everyone in the world "gets it" and we representatives here that want to tax ammunition.

[johniegrad]

we have representatives

[backhoe]

Darned if I can locate a link, but I would swear I read a few months ago that most any Israeli citizen, who "qualifies" ( whatever that means! ) can check out of government arsenals some fairly "heavy" ordnance, like UZI's, for personal use. Naturally, I find the idea very attractive.

[dennisw]

As far as I know there is some form of gun control in Israel. I believe all former IDF can get guns. If it were up to me I would have the Israeli government issuing sidearms and rifles to all Israel men and women. Making weapon's training compulsory. I am sure not enough women and religious Jews are trained and don't have weaponry. Many religious Jews not serving in IDF of course.

ALL SETTLERS must have weapons and good weapon's reining. Men and women