MORE ISRAELIS OPTING TO CARRY GUNS:

As Avi Issacharoff recently pointed out in an op-ed in the Times of Israel, it seems there’s frustratingly little to nothing the government can do in Jerusalem to make this better, because the attackers are too diffuse and too apolitical (in that they don’t particularly care about the status of relations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and are often not part of a specific movement—they’re mainly young and stoked by social media). So when attackers become decentralized like this, perhaps, many Israelis seem to be thinking, so too must the defense?

I correctly predicted a similar phenomenon in the United States back in 2001. And I had some related thoughts here.

A decentralized offense requires a decentralized defense. And the only people who are always available to respond are the people who are already there.