In Jerusalem, a place not entirely unacquainted with Muslim terrorism, I gather there isn’t a lot of nonsense spoken about how ‘blood will flow in the streets’ if ‘civilians’ are allowed to defend themselves. Sometimes, since blood is gonna flow anyway, the question is whose blood you’d prefer to have flowing.
And so they have news stories like this…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man died Monday after ramming his car into pedestrians at a crowded bus stop at the western entrance to Jerusalem, wounding nine, according to Israeli police.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said bystanders shot Abed Almohsin Hassoneh, 21, from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. She said police found an axe in Hassoneh’s vehicle, suggesting he intended to attack Israelis.
No word on how many other bystanders were mown down by the crazed ‘bystanders,’ though I’m quite certain the carnage from all those high-capacity military style assault clips fired randomly from the hip with the shoulder things all going up must have been appalling. My sympathies to the family of the poor lumberjack/motorist caught in the crossfire.
H/T to The Zelman Partisans.
If there ever was a place to go armed, Israel is it. Back in the late seventies I went over there wearing a blue beret. It was against the rules but everywhere I went I had a 9MM browning. It is Better to defend oneself in court than in front of St Peter.
To be fair, with universal conscription and an actual service rate upwards of 50% your average Israeli (and especially your average armed Israeli) isn’t really a “civilian” as far as training and experience is concerned…