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A Modest 5-Part Proposal for Jews Who Are Ambivalent About Guns
Shooting News Weekly ^ | 26 August 2025 | Dan Zimmerman

Posted on 08/30/2025 6:24:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan

We live in a moment when Jewish life in America feels more vulnerable than it has in decades. The threats are real, and we cannot outsource all responsibility for our safety. With that in mind, I want to offer a modest proposal:

First, we should drop the sneering rhetoric about guns. Too often, Jewish discourse is laced with derision for those who own guns or advocate for them. A little empathy, even if we disagree, is a Jewish value too.

Second, Jews should learn to shoot. Every Jew should go to the gun range at least once. You may never own a firearm, let alone carry one—but you should at least know what it feels like to handle one safely, to understand its power as well as its risks.

Third, Jewish organizations should consider providing training. On a voluntary basis, synagogues, schools, and Jewish nonprofits should give their staff and boards the opportunity to experience basic firearms safety at a gun range.

Fourth, we should be honest about the politics of gun control. For decades, many mainstream Jewish organizations have poured energy into advocating for gun control measures that have no realistic chance of passing.

Finally, circumstances should guide personal decisions. Whether to carry a firearm is not a question with a one-size-fits-all answer. Each of us must weigh our own risks, responsibilities, and comfort level. As for me, I’d like more training. Whether I’ll actually acquire a firearm, I haven’t decided. For now, the only thing I’m certain of is that pretending the question doesn’t matter is no longer an option.

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1 posted on 08/30/2025 6:24:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Shoshana loves Guns.


2 posted on 08/30/2025 6:33:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Big Red Badger

JPFO is a Way to Go!


3 posted on 08/30/2025 6:35:34 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Rummyfan

4 posted on 08/30/2025 6:38:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Rummyfan

the author of the article needs to decide to aquire firearms and at least take a couple of good training classes WITHOUT DELAY!

he can deal with his ambivilance later


5 posted on 08/30/2025 7:17:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Rummyfan

Loosen gun restrictions in Israel if you can. Not a gun persons haven. Most self loathing Jews would board the trains before getting a “gun”. Sad.


6 posted on 08/30/2025 7:30:11 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nice!


7 posted on 08/30/2025 7:35:38 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Rummyfan

The first thing Jews need to do is stop voting for Democrats and stop sending them money. Voting for Democrats is insane. It makes about as much sense as supporting Jews for Hitler.


8 posted on 08/30/2025 8:23:41 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Rummyfan

I’ve got Jewish ancestry. Great Grandfather.
Catholic church birth records document it.
I’m a Christian, by baptism and education.
I do not understand why Modern Jews are so
stupid.
I’m a little educated but,
if 6 million Jews in Europe had just kept their
guns and fought back. That Jewish death camp
slaughter would not have occurred!
To die in a gun fight is better than
dying in a death camp.
If you can kill or wound a portion
of a army of attackers. That army will
stop.
Most armies don’t have 6 million people
willing to die or get hurt really bad.
Arm up! Buy enough ammo to fight for weeks!
That’s why we have freedom in America.
That’s why countries are afraid to invade us.


9 posted on 08/30/2025 8:32:51 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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Full armor, IDF soldier. WHy can't these anti gun Jews understand? She would tell them.

The Jews who are addressed in this article are what I call "Vichy Jews." They are largely traitors to their own community, sell outs to the enemy in times of war and antisemitism, just like in France during WWII, where Jews reported their Jewish neighbors to be sent to the concentration camps in hopes of saving themselves, instead of fighting.

They will always be so, and they die by the thousands for their perfidy.

SHAME!

10 posted on 08/31/2025 3:47:35 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Rummyfan

This is what pretty much what any sensible person who understands the second amendment, and understands the responsible ownership and usage of guns has been saying for years.


11 posted on 08/31/2025 5:02:48 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Rummyfan

I can simplify it even more get a clue clue,learn how to fight or pick out the outfit you want to buried in & your casket.


12 posted on 08/31/2025 5:08:17 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: Rummyfan

Considering the Holocaust and antisemitism on the rise, one would think each Jew would want to be armed to the teeth.

But no, there is a substantial portion that appear to be anti-Jew themselves, despise guns and perpetually vote democrat.

And the Holocaust, I just can’t wrap my head around millions of people willingly being rounded up, put in cattle cars and just waltzing off to the showers to get gassed. Granted, the Warsaw Ghetto and a few other examples are exceptions, but the masses simply complied with the Nazi death orders.

I guess the same applies to those murdered by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.


13 posted on 08/31/2025 5:36:47 AM PDT by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: rktman

I understand it’s pretty easy for IDF and Jewish residents of Judea/Samaria to get firearms.

The problem in Israel is the Arab population would also become armed.


14 posted on 08/31/2025 6:02:25 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Rummyfan

Jews should remember their own history in the Bible.

1 Samuel 13:19-22

19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.


15 posted on 08/31/2025 6:23:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Rummyfan

“Second, Jews should learn to shoot. Every Jew should go to the gun range at least once. You may never own a firearm, let alone carry one—but you should at least know what it feels like to handle one safely, to understand its power as well as its risks.”

As a teenager, I learned how to shoot when I lived in Israel. Members of the kibbutz I lived on, took a bunch of us out to the hills to learn to shoot. I fired an AK47, an M16 and an Uzi. For some reason, they didn’t allow us to shoot the Galil. Never could figure that out.


16 posted on 08/31/2025 7:09:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘭. 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵.

The Galil is an enhanced AK-47 that has a longer sight radius, and shoots 5.56 NATO. So you probably didn’t miss much, still a rifle I’d also like to give a try. The manual of arms for an older Galil (AR, ARM, SAR) is pretty much the same as that of an AK. I believe the newer generations of the rifle had a different safety. South Africa and Finland did something similar when the created the Vekor R4 and Valmet rifles respectively.

Rumor also has it that years ago Israel destroyed the tooling for the original rifles, which is kind of a bummer.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 8:41:10 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Rummyfan
Very good article.

Israeli teachers.

And not one dead child in the picture.

18 posted on 08/31/2025 9:57:50 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Rummyfan

I am 84 years old. Ever since I learned of the EVIL hate and hostility that has been directed at Jews over the past 6,000 years, I have wondered why EVERY Jew does not support and practice self-defense for him/her self and family?

Were I a Jew, I’d be a HUGE supporter of JFPO – I am NOT a Jew, but I AM along-time supporter.

Here is the Bottom Line: JEW ON NOT, NEVER, EVER! LEAVE HOME UNARMED!


19 posted on 08/31/2025 3:51:01 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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I’m a gentile but I’m a member of JPFO… they’re much less wishy-washy than the NRA!


20 posted on 08/31/2025 3:54:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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