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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He needs to join the JPFO.
Wow! American Jews not following the Dem party line! Heresy! This is the beginning of the end of mind-slavery.
Pennsylvania is Shall Issue CCW. No locality may pass a gun law which overrides state law.
Pennsylvania has more ccw holders than Texas.
https://www.gunstocarry.com/concealed-carry-statistics/
ALWAYS!
CARRY!
EVERYWHERE!
“Then again, it’s probably hard to herd people onto cattle cars when they’re shooting at you.”
Precisely.
In PA this would be enough to get a CC? What would it take in Los Angeles?
You are commanded to LIVE by the Torah, not die by it.
So?
I firmly believe that once you begin to embrace the 2nd Amendment you can no longer be a Democrat.
Agreed. Individual freedom and the right to bear arms are diametrically opposed to the Democrat agenda
So you should be ale to protect yourself with a firearm if you fear you will be attacked at prayer.
Absolutely. As I recall the Jews kept a sword in one hand while rebuilding the wall (at God's command) after the return from Babylon.
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