They are strengthening gun control:
While Americans blame video games for mass shootings like Sandy Hook, Israel is quietly doing what we should be doing: tightening requirements for gun ownership.
Israel’s State Comptroller is scrutinizing gun control laws after recent incidents where Israeli security guards shot their wives, as well as Sandy Hook massacre, according to YNet.
Israel’s gun control laws are the opposite of America’s, say Israeli officials. “Only those who have a license can bear arms and not everyone can get a license,” the head of the firearms licensing department told the Jerusalem Post. To qualify for a license, Israelis must at least age 21, pass a physical and psychological examination, undergo a background check and then qualify at a licensed shooting range. Gun owners are retested every three years, they get a one-time supply of 50 bullets when they order their weapon, and as of next year, they must keep their gun in a safe.
For a nation that has been at war for more than 60 years, it is notable that Israeli officials estimate that there are only 170,000 weapons that are privately owned in a population of less than 8 million, or a little less than one weapon per 50 Israelis. There are an estimated 300 million weapons in America, or roughly one for every America’s 315 million people. Gunpolicy.org lists a firearms homicide rate of 0.83 per 100,000 Israelis, versus 3.12 in America.
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