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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 3364905" data-attributes="member: 7966">Great ... that means no criminals use guns to commit crime in Israel then!It seems appropriate to note that you shot yourself in the foot by quoting this article.But as I read the article, it said Israel, a country that often appears to be inundated with weapons, actually extends very few gun permits to civilians — only 2.5 percent of the population can legally carry a firearm.“In 40-50 cases over the past 10 years, armed Israeli citizens have intervened during terror attacks,” said Dr. Shlomo Shpiro, a senior research fellow at Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center and the author of a forthcoming paper on the armed Israeli civilian’s role in foiling terror attacks.“In 70 percent of those cases, their intervention was crucial,” he said.</blockquote>