Caroline Glick: What America Can Learn from Israeli Gun Laws
Oded Balilty / Associated Press
by CAROLINE GLICK
26 Feb 2018
When mass shootings take plan in the U.S., commentators routinely raise Israel as a case study to prove that guns in the hands of citizens save lives.
Israel, with its long and painful history of contending with terrorism, is rich with examples that prove this contention.
In recent years, armed citizens have stopped dozens of terrorists. In some cases, those citizens acted when cowardly police officers shrank from danger.
For instance, on March 6, 2008, a terrorist disguised as a delivery man entered the Merkaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem with an assault rifle hidden in a television box. He opened fire on students studying in the library.
Two beat cops arrived on the scene but failed to enter the building to stop the killing.
In the event, a seminary student armed with a handgun, and an off duty infantry officer who lived in the neighborhood, heard the shots and ran to the seminary. The student, a young rabbi, was armed with a handgun; the officer was carrying his assault rifle. Both men ignored the police officers who told them not to go inside. They entered the building and killed the terrorist, ending the massacre. By the time they arrived, eight students, including five high school students, had been killed, while eight more were wounded.
The most recent Palestinian terror campaign, which lasted more or less from October 2015 through April 2016, showed the need for an armed citizenry. In two major attacks in Tel Aviv, the terrorists, armed with rifles were able to kill at will for several minutes because none of the civilians at the sites of the attacks were armed.
In contrast, terror attacks in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, which took place during the same period, were repeatedly stopped at their outset by armed civilians who ran to the scene within moments.
In response to the public outcry, Public Security Minister Glad Erdan slightly loosened restrictionson eligibility for gun licenses and encouraged citizens with gun licenses to carry their weapons wherever they go.
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/...ca-can-learn-israels-experience-gun-violence/
Oded Balilty / Associated Press
by CAROLINE GLICK
26 Feb 2018
When mass shootings take plan in the U.S., commentators routinely raise Israel as a case study to prove that guns in the hands of citizens save lives.
Israel, with its long and painful history of contending with terrorism, is rich with examples that prove this contention.
In recent years, armed citizens have stopped dozens of terrorists. In some cases, those citizens acted when cowardly police officers shrank from danger.
For instance, on March 6, 2008, a terrorist disguised as a delivery man entered the Merkaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem with an assault rifle hidden in a television box. He opened fire on students studying in the library.
Two beat cops arrived on the scene but failed to enter the building to stop the killing.
In the event, a seminary student armed with a handgun, and an off duty infantry officer who lived in the neighborhood, heard the shots and ran to the seminary. The student, a young rabbi, was armed with a handgun; the officer was carrying his assault rifle. Both men ignored the police officers who told them not to go inside. They entered the building and killed the terrorist, ending the massacre. By the time they arrived, eight students, including five high school students, had been killed, while eight more were wounded.
The most recent Palestinian terror campaign, which lasted more or less from October 2015 through April 2016, showed the need for an armed citizenry. In two major attacks in Tel Aviv, the terrorists, armed with rifles were able to kill at will for several minutes because none of the civilians at the sites of the attacks were armed.
In contrast, terror attacks in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, which took place during the same period, were repeatedly stopped at their outset by armed civilians who ran to the scene within moments.
In response to the public outcry, Public Security Minister Glad Erdan slightly loosened restrictionson eligibility for gun licenses and encouraged citizens with gun licenses to carry their weapons wherever they go.
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/...ca-can-learn-israels-experience-gun-violence/
