Mark Smith is a brilliant attorney, gun-focused and one of our most articulate spokespersons for firearms owners civil rights. Check out his blog called The Four Boxes Diner. That\u2019s a reference to Boxes of Liberty: the soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and finally the cartridge box. You also want to check out his books, the latest of which is titled \u201cIsrael Disarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 7, 2023 heavily armed terrorists invaded the Israeli border and acted out a vicious orgy of rape, murder, and hostage taking that triggered a year-long conflict that is still escalating. Smith points out that Israel\u2019s citizenry was not nearly as well-armed as we Americans think. Carry permits were scarce; most who owned a firearm were allowed to keep only fifty rounds of ammunition for it; so-called \u201cassault rifles\u201d were forbidden to private citizens; and in many kibbutzes firearms were required to be stored in a central armory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The outcome: disarmed communities were absolutely ravaged before the Israeli Defense Force or the police could get to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in communities where the citizens did have guns, they fought back effectively. At best, they killed many terrorist raiders and drove off the rest, saving many innocent lives; at worst, in a few instances, outnumbered Israelis died fighting and stacked up enough terrorist corpses to make the enemy pay dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deeply researched and thoroughly documented, \u201cIsrael Disarmed\u201d underscores what the gun owners\u2019 civil rights movement has been saying for years: the designated protectors of any given society, whether they wear the uniforms of the military or the police, cannot be everywhere. When murderers strike, one enemy of the innocent victims is the unforgiving clock. If those intended victims are armed, and can turn into effective combatants immediately, there is a much greater chance for justice to prevail and for those innocents to save their own lives and the lives of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith writes that earlier in 2023, after a series of smaller attacks by terrorists, \u201cMinister of National Security Ben-Gvir responded to the attacks by saying he wanted to loosen some gun restrictions.\u201d But, as Smith points out, it was too little, too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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