{"id":52546,"date":"2023-11-03T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52546"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:49:43","slug":"avoiding-proof-that-the-second-amendment-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52546","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Proof That The Second Amendment Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2023\/10\/30\/report-biden-admin-threatens-quit-supplying-rifles-after-israels-ben-gvir-purportedly-arms-civilians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Report: Biden Admin Threatens to Quit Supplying Rifles After Israel\u2019s Ben Gvir Purportedly Arms Civilians<\/h1>\n<p>After what Israel went through on October 7th, why wouldn&#8217;t it arm its civilians?<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden Administration became upset and threatened to quit supplying rifles to Israel after photos emerged of\u00a0National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir passing them out to \u201ccommunity security squads,\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-10-28\/ty-article\/.premium\/u-s-threatens-to-stop-supplying-guns-after-ben-gvir-gives-them-out-at-political-events\/0000018b-77eb-d1da-a1bb-7ffb96dc0000?v=1698694224930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">according<\/a>\u00a0to Haaretz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Photos of the rifles being passed out were posted on Ben Gvir\u2019s social media and \u201cled to a diplomatic incident that threatened to stop the\u00a0arms shipments\u00a0from the United States to Israel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden Administration reportedly does not want guns passed out to civilians nor distributed during \u201cpolitical events.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Haaretz noted, \u201cThe [Biden Administration] also threatened to halt an order of some 20,000 rifles purchased by the National Security Ministry from American suppliers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Telegraph\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/10\/29\/us-israel-itamar-ben-gvir-settlers-rifles-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that photos purportedly showed Ben Gvir \u201cdistributing the arms at political events in Bnei Brak and El\u2019ad, two towns near Tel Aviv.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A social media user posted the tweet below, which translates: \u201cNational Security Minister of Israel Itamar Ben Gvir distributing arms to civilians. Here [in Brazil] the order is to disarm the civilian and arm the criminal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On October 23rd, I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> illustrating the value of armed citizens. How many lives would have been saved on October 7th if Israeli citizens had been armed? All Israelis serve in the military, so a large proportion of Israeli citizens know how to use guns. Let them defend themselves!<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas terror attack against Israel was launched, Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2023\/10\/08\/without-second-amendment-private-gun-ownership-low-israel\/\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that private gun ownership among Israelis is low. Unlike the United States, Israel does not have a Second Amendment or its equivalent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The BBC\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-65110881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cIsraeli gun ownership is low at about 2% of the population.\u201d In contrast, the findings of a recent study by Rutgers University\u2019s New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2024-election\/2023\/07\/30\/report-upwards-of-six-in-ten-americans-may-own-guns\/\">estimated<\/a>\u00a0upwards of six in ten Americans \u2014 60 percent \u2014\u00a0 own guns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Following the terror attacks Israel expedited the gun license process so Israelis could get firearms to defend themselves and Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Breitbart posted the following headline: Report: Biden Admin Threatens to Quit Supplying Rifles After Israel\u2019s Ben Gvir Purportedly Arms Civilians After what Israel went through on October 7th, why wouldn&#8217;t it arm its civilians? The article reports: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,10348,6252,1162,13521,86,1369,17116,1938,1376,14017,12715],"class_list":["post-52546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-firearm","tag-firearms","tag-israel","tag-national-security","tag-october-7","tag-second-amendment","tag-tel-aviv","tag-the-biden-administration","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52547,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions\/52547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}