Anybody that lives in Israel gets pretty comfortable around people with weapons (that is, if you subscribe to the idea that "we" are the good guys...). So I was a little surprised at the weaponry that I see all over the place here in Manila.
Granted, I like it when people have guns around me, which I know is a bit of a hard thing for many "Americans" to stomach, at least in the public arena. However, I was a bit taken back with the fact that the guards here carry......shotguns. And while not "sawed-off", these things have a really short barrel.
You don't have to be a gun-nut to figure out, if they have to use things, G-d forbid, others may get, well, taken down with the bad guys. I dunno, I get these sense that in Israel there is a bit more of a premium on hitting just the bad guy than here.
Now, you may think that I may be a bit odd in being taken back by the shotgun phenomenon here. Fair enough.
But in today's paper (they dropped it off at my hotel room) they talked about how the heads of the police and army (mind you, I am NOT making this up here.....) had a media-publicized round of target practice. Why might one ask? Because, it would seem, according to the head of the police here, that the cops are not too handy with their weapons (loosely stated).
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