Israel is not an ideal example because even though every "citizen" is required to do a year of military service, they still had to ease restrictions for civilians to obtain firearms when gun control led to increases in attacks on civilians.
Another problem is Israel doesn't tolerate criminal subcultures to the extent we do. There is no MS13 dealing drugs, jacking cars and engaging in home invasions. They have actual terrorist cells operating in their country but so do we and armed citizens generally have little or no impact on groups that Federal anti terrorist groups have difficulty dealing with.
Now you can simply reduce things down to "threat to the public" to have an equivalency of some kind, especially knife attacks in public, and "good guy with a gun" can bring that to an abrupt stop. But again there are still differences.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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