Posted on 11/06/2018 6:52:59 AM PST by george76
On Friday afternoon, with just a few hours before sundown and the start of the Sabbath, David Parvey hurried to a South Philadelphia gun shop called Firing Line to get his new 9-millimeter pistol.
To Parvey, who attends an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Center City, it felt like the only rational response to the Oct. 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 congregants were killed.
"I legally have the right to at least be able to match evil with some sort of response, and in my mind I would be dumb not to," said Parvey, who on Wednesday went to the Philadelphia Police Department's Gun Permit Unit to apply for a concealed-carry license. "I don't want to hide behind the bimah waiting for my turn to get shot."
Parvey is not the only one to reach this conclusion
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While some are responding with prayer and peaceful protests, there are those who feel that a pistol is just more reliable.
"This shooting in Pittsburgh has turned me into an activist," said Rahel Pachter
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It's controversial, said Pachter, who got licensed about a year ago and, in frightening times, takes comfort from the reassuring weight of her Ruger LCP II or Taurus 709 Slim in its holster. Her rabbi doesn't want congregants carrying in synagogue.
"It's not something you're supposed to even touch on the Sabbath," she said. "I'm a daughter of a Holocaust survivor. I lost all my aunts and uncles in the Holocaust, and I'm going to go down fighting. I'm not walking into a gas chamber. I'm not going to stand there like a sitting duck … and get shot at. I refuse."
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“It’s not something you’re supposed to even touch on the Sabbath,” she said.
Funny, I must have missed that in Leviticus..............
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I was surprised that I didn’t see JFPFO in her piece unless I missed it.
>ping< And I always do whenever I leave the house.
Please know that I am a Jew who voted for Trump in the Michigan primary and the 2016 election.
Only 24% of Jews voted for Trump in 2016.
Observant Jews are mostly pro GOP and the others are mostly leftover Dems whose mommies told them to hate Republicans when they were toddlers and they never grew out of it.
The Jews who are rock stars, directors and producers of TV shows and movies, and celebrity authors and late night or SNL comedians are NOT observant Jews and most do not even support Israel. I don’t associate with any of them.
Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership is a website of great relevance to this FR thread’s topic.
After they get their shiny new pistols, please let us know who they vote for. That is the tell tale sign of who they are.
Thank you so much for posting that table. I lost my reference to it so kept quoting for a slip of paper I wrote.
For anyone, including Jews, to vote Dem is wrong. I gave up on the “mostly” a long time ago. NO Dem is right to vote for because they do their bloc voting thing in Congress no matter what the bill or confirmation is about. Dems are on the anti-American Way of Life side and I am on the other.
Isn’t Philadelphia home to the New Black Panthers? That explains Jews arming themselves.
Its like I like to say:
I ain’t getting on that train.
“Her rabbi doesn’t want congregants carrying in synagogue.”
Time for the Synagogue Leaders to discharge the rabbi and get one who understands his congregants right to protect themselves.
Good! Self Defense is a human right.
“The cognitive dissonance in liberal, east coast Jews is off the charts.”
It’s the same here on the Left Coast with the Jews.
How are these guys getting handguns in Philly? Legally, that is. Illegal guns are apparantly easy to get but they are buying them from gun shops and I thought the gun laws in Philly were ridiculous.
Yup.
Good for/on you !
Damn straight.
Then again, it’s probably hard to herd people onto cattle cars when they’re shooting at you.
Ping!
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The Queen Esther approach to anti-Semitic attackers.
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