Guns in Israel (Blogging the Bloggers)

For those who are not aware, Israel is a country about the size of New Jersey that is surrounded by those who would like to assist in the demise of that nation. As many of the readers may have witnessed in the media, Israeli citizens face a lot of violence and hostility in their tiny country daily. Because of this, the citizens must be trained in dealing with these types of situations in an effective and expedient fashion, while always being in a state of heightened awareness. In Israel, it is a requirement for everyone, including women to do service in the military, which helps to make for a nation of citizen soldiers. Here are Question and Answers from the blog of an Israeli citizen known in the blogging world as Double Tapper, explaining the firearms situation in the tiny State of Israel.

doubletapper.blogspot.com/2008/01/questions-from-readers.html

His site will also keep you informed of the latest Israeli hardware. (Gun Shy thinks that Tavor is pretty nifty)

When I read about the problems in Israel, and then analyze some of the violence that is happening here in Orlando, that is perpetrated by home grown Domestic Urban Terrorists on their own people, I wonder what the future holds for us here. It is getting to the point where in some areas, we need to sit facing the door while eating, so that we can remain alert in case there is a violent robbery. We have car jackings and shootings, home invasions and home invasions with shootings, people fighting back against home invasions, robberies with shootings, and just plain shootings in this dangerous urban environment. Sometimes it feels like we are the ones living in a country at war, and even The Brady Bunch are talking about our city. (we are mentioned three times in their report) What their report failed to mention, is that they were all stolen or illegal guns used in those crimes.

As a side note, I have spoken with people from Israel, as well as around the world who read my blog, and are surprised to see that Orlando, The City Beautiful, and home of The Happiest Place on Earth has had such a huge increase in violent crime in the last five or so years. One Israeli that I spoke with, who had been here ten years ago was very shocked and surprised.