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NY Post: Beverly Hills Residents Admit Guns are Useful Tools
AmmoLand ^ | December 16, 2021 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/18/2021 4:08:13 AM PST by marktwain

In a recent article in the New York Post, writer  Michael Shellenberger found, with rising crime and violence in California, guns might be useful things in some situations. Situations other than hunting or target shooting. Situations involving the defense of self, family, and home. From the article:

“I’ve always been anti-gun,” said Debbie Mizrahie of Beverly Hills. “But I am right now in the process of getting myself shooting lessons because I now understand that there may be a need for me to know how to defend myself and my family. We’re living in fear.”

During Black Lives Matter protests last year, Mizrahie told The Post, her neighbor’s home was firebombed with Molotov cocktails.

“My kids were outside and they saw a huge explosion,” she said. “[The neighbor’s] backyard went up in smoke. Trees burned down … But it’s only gotten worse. Beverly Hills has been targeted.”

This has been the standard understanding of the utility of guns for 400 years, from about 1500 to about 1900. Guns increase the ability of individuals to project power, to be able to protect themselves, their families, their homes, their communities, and their nations.

Guns are effective weapons.  Weapons have been integral to human existence in every notable culture. Weapons are the simplest, most obvious, and effective way in which humans rise above animals to the top of the food chain. Our weapons, created by our minds, grant us far more power than our size and muscles warrant. Combined with our ability to cooperate in large groups, they explain how we have dominated the planet.

When everyone has access to effective weapons, there is a rough natural parity of power.  The power is limited to those who can effectively wield the weapons, or command those who do.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; antifa; banglist; beverlyhills; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; california; crime; debbiemizrahie; guns; michaelshellenberger; molotovcocktails; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; nra; secondamendment
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1 posted on 12/18/2021 4:08:13 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain
Yup,it's easy to see why those who have lives to protect...or possessions to protect...would want *someone* with a gun nearby just in case. Some would want it to be a cop,some would want the gun him/herself. Defunding the police has consequences!
2 posted on 12/18/2021 4:24:38 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: marktwain

In today’s world where there’s a target on the back of every woman on the planet, it warms the cockles of my heart to read about this obviously leftist woman coming to terms with the hatred the left has for women and is taking the appropriate actions. Welcome to the sane side Debbie, we value your womanhood.


3 posted on 12/18/2021 4:25:53 AM PST by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: marktwain

So is a spoon for eating soup.


4 posted on 12/18/2021 4:26:13 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: bigfootbob

“Welcome to the sane side Debbie, we value your womanhood.”

And the thing is, we’re not even asking Debbie to own a gun, all we’re asking her to do is stop fighting OUR RIGHT to own a gun.


5 posted on 12/18/2021 5:12:31 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: marktwain

It’s the old adage….God created man and woman. Samuel Colt made them equal.


6 posted on 12/18/2021 5:44:34 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: marktwain
But it’s only gotten worse. Beverly Hills has been targeted.

Beverly Hills!!??? Oh noes!!!

7 posted on 12/18/2021 6:05:19 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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8 posted on 12/18/2021 6:49:20 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: BobL

Doesn’t matter whether she ends up owning a .22 or an arsenal, she will still be against the Second Amendment.

If leftists didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.


9 posted on 12/18/2021 7:10:35 AM PST by decal (MOLON JABE)
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But it’s only gotten worse. Beverly Hills has been targeted.

She should be embracing the vibrancy!

10 posted on 12/18/2021 7:26:59 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: marktwain

Which goes to show the people making all these anti gun decisions are people who are never in situations where they feel threatened. Out of touch of the common person as usual.


11 posted on 12/18/2021 7:59:25 AM PST by Marko413
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To: Marko413

Just had a thought, we should start a movement that all anti-gun thoughts are rooted in white privilege. Turn these weapons back on them.


12 posted on 12/18/2021 8:01:30 AM PST by Marko413
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To: decal

“Doesn’t matter whether she ends up owning a .22 or an arsenal, she will still be against the Second Amendment.”

Sadly you’re right. Specifically what happens in these cases is that she’ll find some other reason to not vote for the Fascist (Republican) and will vote for the gun-grabber, hoping the gun-grabber doesn’t get his way.


13 posted on 12/18/2021 8:12:11 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL

And the thing is, we’re not even asking Debbie to own a gun, all we’re asking her to do is stop fighting OUR RIGHT to own a gun.

That wont happen. Liberal retards only feel that they should have the right to defend themselves. Anyone making less than 7 figures a year doesn’t deserve any rights. When you are too damn stupid to want to protect your family until something happens to the neighbors next door, you are oblivious to the world, but the one you live in.


14 posted on 12/18/2021 8:57:52 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: marktwain
“But I am right now in the process of getting myself shooting lessons....”

“Money well spent.”

15 posted on 12/18/2021 9:18:57 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Crusty Rusty.
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Savour the Suck!


16 posted on 12/18/2021 9:36:16 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Hard to say who would feel worse; Alec Baldwin, for negligently shooting a good woman, or some Beverly Hills wokester for deliberately and righteously dropping the hammer on some feral youth.


17 posted on 12/18/2021 9:47:56 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

To be in a shooting Will be
“A Meatgrinder.”
In ways unseen.
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Unless Your Alec Baldwin.


18 posted on 12/18/2021 9:56:04 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Pretty sure his biggest concerns are financial


19 posted on 12/18/2021 10:09:55 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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