'More than half a million Israelis have become eligible to receive gun permits under a major reform of the country’s firearms rules, with the stated goal of improving the immediate response to terror attacks It's really just common sense but what was fascinating were the whines from the left: The new policy was criticized by the leader of the left-wing opposition party Meretz. Firearms “are a death machine whose civilian use needs to be reduced as much as possible,” Tamar Zandberg said in a statement. “Instead of dealing with the tremendous amount of illegal weapons on the streets endangering human lives, they are simply increasing the number of gun permits.” Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundr...-rules/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter and the disapproving tone from france 24: https://www.france24.com/en/20180821-israel-eases-gun-controls-following-lone-wolf-attacks 'Michal Rozin of the Meretz party said the new rules would not diminish the risks of militant attacks but rather "significantly increase the risk to the lives of women and children" in domestic violence cases.' 'Dov Hanin, a Jewish lawmaker from the mainly Arab Joint List, said that Erdan's plan would lead to more guns in Arab towns, where unlicensed weapons are already a serious problem.Arab Israeli leaders accuse police of neglecting Arab towns and allowing crime to flourish in them.' Apparently,left wing ideology is an international constant lol
Efforts at reduction have been proving to be failures time and time again. Logic would dictate that it is time to try something new, rather than repeating failures and hoping for the best.
Back in the 1960's, arabs would shoot up Israeli schools. Israel armed the teachers and it forced the terrorists to adopt different tactics (bombings). I bet more terrorists are stopped because of this policy.
