Note: Distributed to civilian members of security squads. Not to citizens. Security squads cannot be everywhere. As proven on October 7. Each Israeli is their own first defender. And often their only defender. Israel has to have a Second Amendment. Every Israeli citizen who wants to be armed should be able to be armed. With whatever gun or guns he/she wants and with massive amounts of ammo. This is the one and only way to make Never Again Never Again.
Behind tables laden with more than 50 assault rifles, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, smiled at a crowd of people who had come to the coastal city of Caesarea for a ceremony to receive the firearms.
The divisive politician has been crisscrossing Israel in the past weeks handing out guns to civilian members of security squads as he expands Israeli citizens’ access to guns in the wake of Hamas’ attack last month. The aim, according to the Ministry of National Security, is to create teams to respond to future terror incidents.
The successes of some volunteer security units in southern Israel, who were able to push Hamas gunmen back on October 7 in certain locales, have attracted new members to the initiative.The Israeli government says around 700 volunteer security squads, which will operate under the command of Israeli police, have been established since then, tapping into the wellspring of insecurity in the country following Hamas militants’ massacre of an estimated 1,200 people in Israel that day.
“We saw this in the first days of the war, wherever there were weapons, the scale of the disaster was smaller,” Ben Gvir said in a press release.
By Tara John and Adi Koplewitz
