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Every citizen who has served in the military (most of them due to compulsory duty), is required to keep a fully automatic weapon in their house.
You have a country where a young man can do his grocery shopping with a military rifle across his back and no one bats an eye:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Car...
I'll also guess that Israel has similar feelings too.
1) Is a better filter of those that shouldn't own a gun.
2) Trains a certain level of responsibility / respect for the weapon.
Every citizen who has served in the military (most of them due to compulsory duty), is required to keep a fully automatic weapon in their house.
You have a country where a young man can do his grocery shopping with a military rifle across his back and no one bats an eye:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Car...
I'll also guess that Israel has similar feelings too.