How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists

By Benjamin Netanyahu

Restrict ownership of weapons. Tighten gun control, beginning with registry of weapons. Israeli law, for example, requires careful licensing of handguns and prohibits the ownership of more powerful weapons, yet gun ownership is widespread. Forbidding the ownership of machine guns is not a denial of the right to own a weapon for self-defense; it is a denial of the right to organize private armies – a right which no society can grant without eventually having to fight those armies. The continued existence in the United States of heavily armed anti government militias numbering thousands of members is a grotesque distortion of the idea of civil freedom, which should be brought to a speedy end.

(Netanyahu and Netanyahu 1997, 141)

References

Netanyahu, Benjamin, and Binyamin Netanyahu. 1997. Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists. N.p.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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