[Basil Duke]

"his [Bush's] reluctance to restrict the right to bear arms..." Why, why, WHY are American Jews - many of them holocaust survivors or direct descendants of holocaust victims/survivors - so distressed at the thought of possessing the means to protect oneself and one's family? I swear to God, this rigid hatred of personal firearms ownership makes me think the majority of these people are mentally ill. At best, they are pathologically nonsensical. If having six million of your disarmed people slaughtered doesn't make a Second Amendment believer out of you, nothing will. What further evidence could possibly be presented to them to nudge them into the "self preservation" camp?

[eureka!]

Re#9 Amazing, isn't it.

[jwalburg]

Yes, why? And why do they continue to embrace abortion, after seeing what the philosophy that says that
some human beings are expendable did for them in Germany?

[keithtoo]

All American lib's - Jews are no exception - suffer from a severe case of "Stockholm Syndrome" where they inevitably come to sympathize more with their attackers than they do with those who would free them.

Kinda like the little kid on the playground who, out of fear and the hope of currying favor, feigns frienship with the kid who bullies him when the teacher comes to find out what the problem is.

It is pitiful, but true.

[norton]

The entire list needs repeating:

"Bush's civil agenda still deters most Jews. Issues of religion and state, as well as his opposition to abortion, his reluctance to restrict the right to bear arms, and the marginal importance he assigns to environmental quality are eventually leading the Jews to the Democratic candidates."

1) Since the US offers the safest environment in the world to the Jewish faith and GWB and "our side" seem far more willing to defend religious rights than the "not on public property" & "ethics are relative" left...
2) Since Israel is an armed camp - and becomming more so in direct response to the intifada...
3) The only thing this rationalizatioon might suggest is that American Jewish political attitudes are dominated by their passionate fondness for Redwood forests and Spotted Owls.

I'm just not sure I'm willing to accept that opinion.

[VaFederalist]

I am really stunned by the American Jewish non-support of 2nd Amendment rights. First, for all of the reasons stated by Basil, but also are they unaware that EVERYONE in Israel is packing heat and have been doing so since Israel was reestablished? I visited there in 94 and even the little old lady who organized our USO tours had a pistol in her purse.

[MainFrame65]

"his [Bush's] reluctance to restrict the right to bear arms..."

This amazes and perplexes me, as well. But I hear it from my brother, my sisters, most of my cousins, etc. There is an organization that seems to understand - Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. But I have only heard of them, and don't know any members. Residents of the Warsaw Ghetto had only about a dozen weapons, and held out for weeks. Why, with that history, would we not consider being armed and ready a sacred duty?

[painter]

OH,Man!!Do you ever Nail it!!I have seen the TV specials "The Holocaust",and "The Winds of War",and saw how the Jews alowed the Nazis to gather them up and slaughter them like cattle.