I wrote a long thesis about my theory of weapons in Israel just now – and erased it – maybe it wasn’t a mistake.  Maybe I’m just not authoritative enough to speak on this and I don’t have the right to shoot off my mouth.  I will just hint at one anecdote about a town up north where after many armed robberies the police raided a nearby village and confiscated all the weapons.  The next night the police station was raided and the weapons were stolen.  See Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” for the situation a century or two back.   I’m going to write about something I know more about.