Welcome back to the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church, joined as always by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He's the Lawrence A. T.T. Professor of Law at NYU and he's a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Today we're going to be talking about gun violence and beeper violence.

Richard, how are you doing this fine afternoon?

Well, I turned on my cell phone this morning and I took a sigh of relief.

Fair enough. So let's talk about that for a moment a few days ago

Israel pulled off one of I think one of the most impressive

counterintelligence cops I have ever seen when it deployed beeper bombs to

thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon followed the next day by walkie talkies

and other electronics also blowing up completely targeted it looks like

at Hezbollah members as these electronics were all distributed by Hezbollah to its

membership. Now Richard, this is this is following 11 months of

Hezbollah lobbying hundreds thousands of missiles into northern Israel in

something like 80,000 Israelis have relocated,

have abandoned the north of Israel, 15,000 kids

not in school for the year.

Obviously, this is all in the wake of October 7th.

But following the beeper attack and the follow of the second day, there were two reactions.

One, the reaction from people who aren't that necessarily so friendly to Israel, calling it either,

you know, I think at worst terrorism or at best putting civilians in danger.

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