Why were Israelis so defenseless against Hamas terrorists going house-to-house killing and raping?

By now you’ve all seen the horrifying images from Israel over the weekend. People being murdered in their homes. Women being pulled out of vehicles by their hair and raped. Men being dragged behind vehicles to their deaths. Spat upon. Executed...

... why didn’t the Israelis fight back?...

Many of us, myself included, assumed that with Israel being surrounded on all sides by such vicious enemies, and living in such close proximity to them, that the Israelis lived with firearms at the ready in all of their houses.

That assumption would be wrong...

... the Israeli government makes its citizens jump through so many hoops that less than 2 percent of Israeli citizens are licensed to own a pistol...

And the first order of business for a corrupt government that no longer represents the interest of the people, is to disarm the people...

The globalists who run Washington and many state Capitols are now gunning for the Second Amendment. Once that’s gone, that’s all she wrote...

Update: ...One of the many articles confirming my information was published by The Federalist. Another was posted by The Times of Israel.