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

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.

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.

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.