[MicroBalrog]

The title reads "A handgun for EVERY citizen".

[Desertdog]

A very good idea.

[Hkmp5sd]

An alert customer shot dead a terrorist who tried to set off an explosive device in a supermarket a few minutes ago in Efrat. The town is in Gush Etzion, a block of Jewish communities in Judea, south of Bethlehem.

At least one small explosion did take place, leaving one customer lightly wounded but causing no casualties, said Jerusalem Post reporter Margot Dudkevitch. Nails from one of the explosions littered the floor.

Further tragedy was averted when a woman shopping in the packed supermarket apparently saw the terrorist trying to set off a second explosion and shot him twice in the head from close range.

A police source told Israel Radio the terrorist apparently intended to detonate a small bomb in the supermarket and then blow himself up with the explosive belt when police forces came to the store.

- February 22, 2002

Three terrorists who attempted to machinegun the throng managed to kill only one victim before being shot down by handgun-carrying Israelis.

Presented to the press the next day, the surviving terrorist complained that his group had not realized that Israeli civilians were armed. The terrorists had planned to machinegun a succession of crowded spots, thinking that they would be able to escape before the police or army could arrive to deal with them.

- Israeli Criminologist Abraham Tennenbaum

[MicroBalrog]

And that with around 260,000 armed citizens in a 6,200,000-man country - less than 5%!!!

[Kharn]

MicroBalrog:
For comparison, in Shall-issue CCW states in the US I believe the percentage of permit holders usually hovers around 2%.

Kharn

[MicroBalrog]

Correct, however, the above is only a percentage of the population thatowns guns, not that routinely caries them.:banghead: