Re: A last word on weapons and defence

"Being safe from being shot dead is a very important part of "overall safety", I would have thought." So is avoiding a lightning strike. In either case we're talking about odds that are only a fraction of a percent which is very far from your out-of-touch assertion that simply stepping outside presents some grave risk of being shot. By comparison, other threats also bear consideration and whether to acquire a gun to defend oneself from them. But that would require you to think in terms of individual circumstances instead of treating people as part of a collective blob. Putting it another way, if both the Israelis and the Palestinians were magically disarmed tomorrow, the Palestinians would not find themselves free of other threats coming from the Israelis. Would you then deny them guns or would you just insist that they work within the system of their "democratic" polity?