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Never again: Jewish group petitions EU to allow Jews to carry guns
American Thinker ^ | 01/15/2015 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/15/2015 7:24:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Notoriously anti-gun Europe will probably turn down this request from the European Jewish Association to allow members of their community to carry firearms to defend themselves.

But what does it say about the plight of Jews in Europe that they would feel compelled to ask?

Washington Free Beacon:

The European Jewish Association (EJA), which represents Jewish communities across Europe, says that gun license laws must be altered following a string of deadly attacks on Jews in France and other European countries, where anti-Semitism has been growing at an alarming rate.

The recent attacks, including one on a Kosher market that killed four, “have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting” in a way that empowers Europe’s Jews, according to a letter sent Tuesday by EJA General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin to EU leaders.

The EU, which has enacted very stringent gun control laws, should empower and train Jews to be proficient with guns in order to maintain their safety, according to Margolin.

“The Paris attacks, as well as the many challenges and threats which have been presented to the European Jewish community in recent years, have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting,” Margolin writes.

“We hereby ask that gun licensing laws are reviewed with immediate effect to allow designated people in the Jewish communities and institutions to own weapons for the essential protection of their communities, as well as receiving the necessary training to protect their members from potential terror attacks.”


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; eu; guns; jews
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1 posted on 01/15/2015 7:24:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s deja vu Warsaw all over again.

IMHO


2 posted on 01/15/2015 7:26:39 AM PST by ripley
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To: SeekAndFind

Never happen.


3 posted on 01/15/2015 7:27:32 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ripley
Those that don't know history, repeat it

Great, big smile on my face for the effort by God's chosen.

4 posted on 01/15/2015 7:28:48 AM PST by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

The EJA will now be labeled a far right organisation by the yourapeeins. They will not be heard from again.


5 posted on 01/15/2015 7:30:51 AM PST by certrtwngnut (The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
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To: SeekAndFind

An armed population may be an obstacle to elitist ambitions. To the EU commissars, better a few dead Jews than losing power. Besides, “terrorism” justifies a police state with unlimited surveillance powers.


6 posted on 01/15/2015 7:34:28 AM PST by trubolotta
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To: SeekAndFind

That will never happen. The only place Jews are free to carry guns is in Israel.


7 posted on 01/15/2015 7:38:51 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: SeekAndFind

Do you want to live or once again be led like sheep to the slaughter? Don’t ask permission, get the weapons and protect yourselves by any means necessary.


8 posted on 01/15/2015 7:41:53 AM PST by JGT
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To: SkyDancer; KC_Lion

Ping


9 posted on 01/15/2015 7:44:21 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: knarf
Those that don't know history, repeat it

And those that know it and like it repeat it by choice


10 posted on 01/15/2015 7:51:15 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

ping


11 posted on 01/15/2015 7:52:01 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: SeekAndFind
"Better the death of Masada, than the death of Treblinka."
12 posted on 01/15/2015 7:55:14 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: SkyDancer

“The only place Jews are free to carry guns is Israel.”

That is, if they can get a not so easy to get an ownership permit. They like to limit ownership to professional security people. Its even tough for a military veteran with 3 years sevice to have a firearm. Israel rejects 40% of all permitapplications.

Surprised? So was I. Free carry there is a common misconception.


13 posted on 01/15/2015 8:01:23 AM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: JGT

That’s what I was thinking. Why even ask?
Why eve put up with Europe at all after what happened to them before.

They are too timid. They need to at least visit Isreal and take a course in kick ass and take names.


14 posted on 01/15/2015 8:05:19 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: SkyDancer
WHO would not feel safe ?


etc., etc.

go look for yourself

15 posted on 01/15/2015 8:06:41 AM PST by knarf
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To: from occupied ga
Barack Hussein Obama is an affirmative action Hitler. This is not a Godwin either. While Obama needs a teleprompter to go to the bathroom; Hitler had a great memory and would not have needed such a device. While Hitler built the autobahn and it is still in use today; Obama...built Solyndra and that was a real boondoggle. Hitler murdered six million Jews directly; Obama wants to lead from behind in such an endeavor; e.g., having Iran murder ; the six million Jews of Israel.

Also, the Germans did not vote Hitler into office (even though he was wildly popular); however, America voted the affirmative action moron into office TWICE. America can be so proud /sarc

U.S.S. of A (the Soviet Socialist States of America)

16 posted on 01/15/2015 8:13:12 AM PST by Stepan12 (Our present appeasement of Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: knarf
"Those that don't know history, repeat it. Great, big smile on my face for the effort by God's chosen."

Well, better late than never. Here in the good old USA, the most reliable backers of anti-gun-freedom laws/rules/regulations have been Jews. I never could understand why.

17 posted on 01/15/2015 8:15:18 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: Wonder Warthog

Yeah ... go figure.


18 posted on 01/15/2015 8:16:46 AM PST by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

Somebody send a copy of this to Diane Feinstein.


19 posted on 01/15/2015 8:21:26 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Does anyone seriously think that the neo-Nazis want the Jews--of all people--to be armed???
20 posted on 01/15/2015 8:22:34 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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