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Civilians in Israel arm themselves in the wake of Hamas's brutal massacre on October 7
2023-12-06
Photos, of course.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] They could be another young couple heading out for the evening.
Visual titillation for the symbol challenged.
But the assault rifle slung around the shoulders of this young woman helps lay bare the grim everyday reality faced by Israelis.

The pair were seen walking hand-in-hand through Jerusalem on Monday, amid heightened tensions in the city.

Prior to Hamas's brutal massacre on October 7, Israel had strict gun laws, permitting licences only to people who could prove they needed extra security.

Applications previously took months to process but can now be approved within days of filling out an online form.

Gun shops and shooting ranges in Israel have since been inundated with civilians looking to buy firearms to protect their families.

Less than a month after Hamas's attacks there had been 150,000 applications for gun licences, compared to just 42 in the same period, last year.

Israel's police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has previously described gun ownership as a precaution against internal unrest between Jews and Israel's Arab minority.

In a televised speech after the attacks, Israel's president Benjamin Netanyahu said the government would be 'encouraging civilians and helping civilians to arm themselves for their self-defense'.
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Itamar Ben-Gvir: 2023-10-10 Israel Loosens Strict Gun Control Laws To Arm ‘As Many Citizens As Possible'
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  stuck at windows 7

Heh. Literally hours away from putting faithful 7 system, sole survivor of alarming ten year tech die-off, out to pasture. Tried to like 10, but suddenly 11 loomed... bleh.
Posted by: Blossom Panda2643   2023-12-06 23:58  

#16  I yield to your much greater expertise, dear SteveS. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-06 23:50  

#15  attached, not attacked.

Based on my experience with HTML, "attacked" would be correct.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-12-06 23:28  

#14  attached, not attacked. PIMF!!
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-06 22:30  

#13  NoMoreBS‘s link fixed. My dear, you are not pasting the URL in the drop-down box when you click on the link icon. So what shows up is the text attacked to the placeholder https:// that the drop-down box comes with. You’re most of the way there, just don’t forget that last step. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-06 22:27  

#12  Nope, but Inam stuck at windows 7 so that might be the issue I still use cash almost exclusively, drive a 2006 Eddie Bauer aford V8 Explorer with 115k miles and do not have any social media accounts. Not a luddite but not plugged in any more.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-06 22:19  

#11  Following's not criticism, just an observation or two from a reader who always finds NMBS's posts interesting and informative.

1. For months my lousy browser's been displaying some (possibly all) of NMBS's posted URL's as "unclickable" text colored like clickable links. Haven't mentioned it because I'm a "turn everything off until stuff breaks" idiot, but lately I've noticed others sharing the experience. Haven't opened a newsreader in umpteen years, but... [cold live-ish finger reflexively stabs out at erstwhile "check headers" key to see if NMBS might be an Apple person].

2. Searching YT via popular scraper/dl-er for v= string yields expected clip.

3. Searching Google via Brave for "Chortlin' Thurston singers" yields several versions and edits of clip.

Posted by: Blossom Panda2643   2023-12-06 22:09  

#10  Well, this is the result of a nation that fails to provide security for it's people.
Where else have I seen this?
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-12-06 16:39  

#9  https://youtu.be/5ju4Gla2odw

Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-06 16:31  

#8  DuckDuckGo
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-06 16:25  

#7  I have tried four different sources for the Heston videoclip from the NRA convention where he says "From my cold, dead hands" and holds up the flintlock, and each has been blocked.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-06 13:48  

#6  Never trust google! This has the video embedded in the beginning of the article!

https://75thbunker.com/from-my-cold-dead-hands-charlton-heston/
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-06 13:43  

#5  about:blank#blocked

Sorry, no video.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-06 13:15  

#4  ...as prescient as ever!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-06 12:38  

#3  Words before the famous clip are as prescient of ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0SwS-ff2Q
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-06 12:37  

#2  Savages attacking along the frontier had similar effect here.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-06 06:37  

#1  Israeli Security Minister: We Are Approving ‘Up to 3,000’ Gun License Applications A Day
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-06 01:04  

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