Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be traced back to its owner. But, amazingly, despite police spending tens of thousands of man-hours administering these laws ... there is not even a single case where the laws have been instrumental in identifying someone who has committed a crime.

During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.

If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders 4,177 rapes and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.