Israel to Its Citizens: Be Armed and Alert in Public to Foil Terrorist Attackers

Israel to Its Citizens: Be Armed and Alert in Public to Foil Terrorist Attackers
An Israeli policeman secures a shooting attack site in east Jerusalem on Jan. 28, 2023. Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo
Lawrence Solomon
Patricia Adams
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While most governments of democracies, and all governments of tyrannies, strive to strip their law-abiding citizens of the right to bear arms, Israel now does the opposite. Get guns, keep them loaded, and be ready to shoot when out in public, it tells its citizens. Because police can’t be everywhere at all times, there’s no alternative to a vigilant citizenry capable of taking down terrorists.

Lawrence Solomon is an Epoch Times columnist, a former National Post and Globe and Mail columnist, and the executive director of Toronto-based Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute. He is the author of seven books, including “The Deniers,” a No. 1 environmental best-seller in both the United States and Canada.
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