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In Israel, guns are ubiquitous; gun crimes aren't
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Bruce W. Krafft
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... "More than a decade has passed, but I still recall that laconic refusal when I read about Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary and now Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Guns are virtually everywhere in Israel, certainly much more so than in the U.S. Yet as Barack Obama noted in a recent tweet, Americans kill one another (per capita) 33 times as often as do Israelis. When we lived in the U.S., had I walked into any gun shop, I would undoubtedly have been able to buy a gun legally. In Israel, though, even at the height of the Second Intifada, I was told that I couldn’t carry a weapon." ... |
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| Were Israel not subject to the constant Palestinian violence, under its system carry permits would be as few as they are in, say, Maryland, because there would be far fewer people who could prove "special circumstances" to obtain a permit. |
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