Orthodox rabbis on guns

The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | September 16, 2014 | Eugene Volokh

[JoeFromSidney]

Have Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership had their say yet?

[Lurker]

A fine choice. May I be so bold as to suggest a sidearm, just in case.

[PATRIOT1876]

God doesn’t say that we should lie down and let evil take over.

War is all throughout the Old Testament.

“You should make war with guidance; victory comes with many counselors.”

~PROVERBS 24:6

[Jack Hammer]

Funny - Hitler believed the same thing.

[Zionist Conspirator]

American Jews (very much including American Orthodox Jews) are overwhelmingly an urban people, and urban people are afraid of weapons being owned by anyone other than authority figures. This statement by RCA (a "centerist" Orthodox organization) is obviously a political statement, not a pesaq Torah.

The Roman Catholic Church in America is every bit as anti-gun as the Jews (that urban thing again) and they have far more numbers and far more clout than Jews, but of course since the Catholic Church represents "western civilization" they'll get a pass from the "us white people have to stick together" club. During the Middle Ages so beloved of "palaeconservatives," was it considered a "G-d-given right" for every single person to own weapons? I doubt it.

Agnostics have no grounds for any system of ethics, morality, or ideals, btw.

[MeganC]

You need a bigger magazine!