They seem oddly obsessed with the fact that it is a ruger, and not so much about the human rights violation. Does it really make a difference what brand of rifle it is?
The Palestinian Authority/PLO signed a negotiated agreement with Israel in the late 90s and soon had significant freedom and autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. Abbas, the current president of "democratic Palestine" was elected in 2009 and hasn't allowed another election since. Israel handed the entire Gaza Strip over to the Palestinians in 2005 and Hamas promptly threw the "elected" PLO out. So right or not, the Palestinians have not exercised their right to self-governance and have abused the civil rights of their own people far more than Israel has. They have also consistently abrogated those rights by committing terrorist attacks on non-combatant Israelis. And that right to bear arms that we so ardently support does not mean that you can use those arms with blatant disregard for others or prevent your targets from shooting back.This isn't a political forum but I have mixed feelings about the afair. On one had you have the Israelis that have been victims of terrorist attacks forever and are supposedly defending themselves from rioters throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. On the other hand you have the Palestinians who have been denied the human rights that we and Israeli citizens enjoy. The ideals that founded our own country are that people have the right to self governance and the right to bear arms to defend themselves and their community and country, and there is no denying that they have not been allowed the rights that we so passionately defend. The whole thing has enormous potential for human rights abuse.