Arara resident: State ignoring gun problem in Arab sector

An angry resident of Arara complains that the state is turning a blind eye to the proliferation of illegal firearms in the Arab sector, and says that the attack in Tel Aviv was the only incident that has made people in the village – from where Nashat Milhem hailed – stop using firearms in public over the past week.

“We have this problem in our sector of people shooting in the air from Thursday to Saturday,” the man tells Channel 2, referring to the custom of firing live bullets into the sky at weddings.

“The police were only paying lip service when they were checking homes in Arara for illegal firearms over the past week and they only acted because the village is now in the news,” he says.