Writing in October 2017 , in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting , Shapiro argued that " banning all guns would be unwise as well as immoral , " but " we must balance the need and right to firearms with public policy concerns , including the risk that a machine gun will be used in public . " Shapiro suggested that policy makers " should look at ways of enforcing federal laws banning the sale of guns to the mentally ill . " In 2003 , Shapiro published a column demanding that Israel " transfer the Palestinians and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea , Samaria , Gaza and Israel proper . " Citing expulsion of Germans after World War II as a precedent , Shapiro insisted that " expelling a hostile population is a commonly-used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements . " In the same article , Shapiro said that " The ideology of the Palestinian population is indistinguishable from that of the terrorist leadership . " Jeffrey Goldberg was highly critical of these comments and cited them as an example of Shapiro 's " fascist " behavior . Shapiro later reversed his view on the West Bank issue , saying it was " both inhumane and impractical "
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