Posted on 12/06/2015 8:48:56 AM PST by rktman
I am not a complete stranger to guns. I got my merit badge in riflery when I was a kid and have dropped in on a firing range now and again, learning the basics on Glocks and Berettas. I even went shooting with former Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
But the NRA was always a bridge too far. I interviewed Wayne LaPierre, its CEO, once for PJTV, but I never joined. I'm still a Jewish boy from New York whose mother cringed at buying him a cap gun. It's not in my DNA.
The New York Times and Attorney General Loretta Lynch have finally put an end to all that. Hello again, Mr. LaPierre. Here's my twenty-five bucks. Send me that rosewood knife. I'm in.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
No,you can’t say “the dark side”
You have to say “a side of color”
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Bkmrk
Thanks for setting the record straight. So, will the pink floyd album need to be pulled from the racks?
Finally the NRA shown in 2016 will be easy driving distance for me. I’m joining for that reason alone.
If the author and the rest of the gun owners who let the NRA members carry the load all these years had joined long ago and the NRA had 20 million or more members NONE of this GUN CONTROL BS would even exist
Sorry—The NRA gives money to DemoncRATS.
One of their own, Harry Reid, turned on them this week.
We went a few years ago when it was in Charlotte. Fun time. I saw R. Lee Ermey quite close, although I didn’t wait in the line for his autograph.
I don’t own a gun and I’m a member. It’s so cheap and they’re a good organization.
Uh, because the NRA could have bought off a lot more congress critters? LOL! You KNOW that’s what “they” claim. Most powerful lobby in the entire universe. Maybe even in the galaxy. I think someone posted the list of the top $$$$ lobby outfits in play on here somewhere.
“Sorry—The NRA gives money to DemoncRATS.
One of their own, Harry Reid, turned on them this week.”
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Been stating for many ...many years but the NRA fanboys get there panties in a twist. Perfect example is harry Notwot Reid.
Well, when civil rights included the 2nd amendment, they were one of the first civil rights organizations. Uh, I think I read that someplace. :>)
I hope the NRA can double or triple its membership before the next election. The Second Amendment Foundation & Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership are also very good.
I don’t know where this idea that gun ownership is “not in the Jewish DNA” came from. Abraham waged war with the four kings to rescue his nephew. Jacob prepared weapons to meet his bother Esau. His sons Shimon and Levi slaughtered the inhabitants of the city of Shchem for the rape of their sister. The Jews of the Exodus waged war with the Amalakites and then fought seven nations in the conquest of the Holy Land. Other great warriors: Yiftach, King David, Avner, Yoav and, of course Judah the Maccabee. Although they ultimately lost, Josephus testifies that the Jewish wars against Roman domination and occupation where some of the worst Rome ever encountered.
Talmud is in the DNA, so I’ll answer my own question. Opposition to weapons is not in the Jewish DNA, but it has become habit. 2,000 years of exile meant living at the mercy of other countries as minorities, often very small minorities, without any inherent rights to self-defense and often prohibited from bearing arms. Over time, the paradigm set in that Jews simply did not have weapons, did not wage war and often had to hire mercenaries for defense or hope the reigning authorities (kings, bishops, burghers, nobles) would provide it. Jewish Ghettos may have come about more for self protection than from forced segregation.
Sometime around the Renaissance, the habit of defenselessness began to erode. We find Jews taking up arms in the American Revolution, the Civil War, WWI and WWII in large numbers compared to their small demographic. The waves of Zionist immigrants coming during the late 19th and early 20th century armed themselves to defend their towns and farms from Arab marauders. A Jewish (or “Palestinian”) regiment took form in the British army in WWII. The pre-State Haganah formed the backbone of Israel’s Tzahal (an abbreviation for Tzava HaHagana L’Yisrael: Army for the Defense of Israel), which has now shattered the image of the defenseless exile Jew.
If it was not in the DNA of Jews, how would it be possible for the Jewish army of today to rank among the most powerful in the world despite Israel’s diminutive size as a nation? Because Jews DO have warrior genes. The myth of this defenseless DNA is a liberal one through and through: they don’t want to seem like the rednecks of flyover country they so despise, so it must be the DNA.
GOA.
US Jewish self loathing dna possibly? I have never figured out why so many Americans of Jewish faith are so, so, so, democratic/liberal. And some of them (from my shallow observation) don’t really support Israel either. Quite confusing. GO CUFI!
Get back to me, when the NRA apologizes for its support of Harry Reid. Then I might think about re-joining.
He is not alone. We never considered joining but now we are....
I go really cheap. Signed up in 1985 for a $25.00 per quarter $300 Life Membership. Got my certificate dated September 1, 1988.
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