What Could American-Style Gun Culture Do to Israel?
An Armed, Internally Divided Nation Is Not One That Makes Peace Easily
mong the core Israeli national narratives fractured by the October 7 Hamas terror attacks and the months of war and violence that have followed was the notion that Israel’s ethos on firearms differed from that of the United States.
Both countries were gun-centric democracies, that narrative allowed, but the U.S. was a land of too many guns and too few laws—while Israelis “trust their state, and don’t fear each other.” A common refrain emphasized that “in Israel it is not a right to bear arms, but a privilege.”
I knew this mentality …
