Israel to ease self-defense gun controls after synagogue attack

[ArcadiaGP]

Don't usually link RT, but interesting nonetheless

http://rt.com/news/206423-attack-synagogue-jerusalem-terrorist/

 

[OakRiver]

When you're surrounded by water or countries that would rather you did not exist being able to defend yourself is no bad idea.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

When you're surrounded by water or countries that would rather you did not exist being able to defend yourself is no bad idea.

Agreed. I sure hope this helps.

 

[singlesix]

Let's deploy MDA and they can hold signs calling for common sense axe and knife control.

 

[88GT]

Well, that sucks.....for someone on this forum. He won't be able to ***** about how awful Israel's gun laws are now. Oh, who am I kidding? Yes, he will.

 

[Sheepdog Gear]

Thankfully they have the common sense to move in the right direction after making a mistake. Many would just keep pushing in the wrong direction.... *SEE CURRENT US ADMINISTRATION.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Well, that sucks.....for someone on this forum. He won't be able to ***** about how awful Israel's gun laws are now. Oh, who am I kidding? Yes, he will.

Illinois' laws still suck in general, right?

Strides are being made in IL.

Perhaps a small step was made in Israel.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Terror apologists weigh in: "The Palestinians have the right to self-defense" | Twitchy

 

[KLB]

Well, that sucks.....for someone on this forum. He won't be able to ***** about how awful Israel's gun laws are now. Oh, who am I kidding? Yes, he will.

It isn't exactly a huge step.

“In the coming hours, I will ease controls on carrying weapons,” he said in comments broadcast on public radio.

He added that the new rules will apply to anyone who owns a gun license, such as private security guards and off duty army officers.

I'm surprised they weren't already allowed to carry.

 

[GIJEW]

It isn't exactly a huge step.

I'm surprised they weren't already allowed to carry.

On paper Israel's gun laws always did resemble NYNY but in practice it was almost "shall issue" for any IDF vet (and there's a draft of course). That changed with Rabin's assassination.

 

[rhino]

Their gun laws are unfortunate and from my outsider's perspective, demonstrate no small amount of disdain for history and what happens when regular people do not have ready access to weapons.

It kid of reminds me of military bases in war zones whose commanders insist that no one be armed inside of the gates.

 

[printcraft]

Well, that sucks.....for someone on this forum. He won't be able to ***** about how awful Israel's gun laws are now. Oh, who am I kidding? Yes, he will.

*snicker*

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Their gun laws are unfortunate and from my outsider's perspective, demonstrate no small amount of disdain for history and what happens when regular people do not have ready access to weapons.

Israel was founded and populated by hard-core command and control Socialists. The only ones that think as we do at INGO are Machalniki (American volunteers in Zahal) and a few students there.

The man of the Left does not care what you do, as long as it is mandatory.

 

[rhino]

Israel was founded and populated by hard-core command and control Socialists. The only ones that think as we do at INGO are Machalniki (American volunteers in Zahal) and a few students there.

The man of the Left does not care what you do, as long as it is mandatory.

Well, I do not like that. No sir, I do not like that at all.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Well, I do not like that. No sir, I do not like that at all.

Pffft, that just makes me happy.

 

[Alamo]

On Israeli gun laws.
Visiting an Israeli gun shop | The Bang Switch
Israeli Gun Rights Advocate: How Do We Get To ?Shall-Issue?? - The Truth About Guns

In Israel, unlike the US, a privilege -- but no right -- to bear arms | The Times of Israel

“In Israel it is not a right to bear arms, but a privilege,” said Rabani, standing in front of a case of 9mm. handguns.
And in recent years the privilege has been extended to fewer citizens.
The trend began in 1992 with a Knesset committee, but took root in 1995 when prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down and killed by an assassin, Yigal Amir, who used a legal, properly licensed firearm. “After the murder, they inserted a new article whereby if the grounds for issuing a weapon have changed” — if, say, the person has moved– “then the license is canceled,” Yaakov Amit, the head of the Ministry of Public Safety’s Firearms Licensing Department, told Army Radio on Sunday. (It is not clear whether Amir would have been stripped of his license under the more stringent regulations.)
Today, Amit said, there are 170,000 Israeli citizens licensed to carry a weapon, a mere 2.5 percent of the population. Of these, 40,000 are security guards who work in supermarkets, malls and schools.

Doesn't sound like they have a real robust RKBA movement there.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

No, Socialism isn't down with the whole Liberty thing.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Israel’s Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, has said that gun controls for self-defense will be eased in wake of the attack.

“In the coming hours, I will ease controls on carrying weapons,” he said in comments broadcast on public radio. He added that the new rules will apply to anyone who owns a gun license, such as private security guards and off duty army officers.

I'd bet Barbara Boxer's knees would buckle and she'd get a "tingle down her leg" if she heard Aharonovitch say this...just the idea a single person in a government can make such a call.

 

[AA&E]

I am shocked they ever had gun controls measures in place to begin with. Common sense isn't so common these days.

 

[Dead Duck]

*snicker*

*Milky Way*