Gun Policy News
Palestinians' Gun Culture Poses Political, Social Perils
18 August 2000
Los Angeles Times
RAMALLAH, West Bank — When Ahlam Duqmaq was gunned down in her father's butcher shop by gangs looking for her brothers, Palestinians were outraged. Is our life this cheap? they asked. Who will protect us?
Duqmaq's killing became a glaring example of what Palestinians complain is a growing scourge: the militarization of their society, in a land where rival security forces shoot it out in public, young civilian men swagger through marketplaces with assault rifles, and... (GunPolicy.org)