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My hypothesis was that it's to do with National Service and being a nation on a war footing.... A recognition of the need for weapons combined with a reasonable level of discipline and training in their use...
I then looked for where Israel sit in the graph - this debunked my theory....
(I once took a train from Tel Aviv to Rehovot and was shocked by the crazy number of serious weaponry toted by young men and women alike - I requested an explanation from a soldier and was told it's part of public life with discipline instilled from childhood - every kid grows up knowing their dad's got an Uzi, but it's in a safe place and would only ever be used in service of the state).