[SJackson]

One sentence, But if assaults on Jews are increasing in France, I believe those Jews who remain must be prepared to arm themselves. amongst paragraphs of anti-gun canards.

Jews should be armed, but so should Christians, Muslims and everyone else.

Of course it won't happen in France or anywhere in Western Europe, because they lack both the 2nd amendment, which protects us from most of the nonsense in the article, and the "gun culture" of the United States. The lack of which argues against loosening restrictions on individual ownership.

French Jews who fear for their lives should leave. For a small minority, whether Jews today in France or Germany in the 1930s, the benefit of being armed is to facilitate that flight, as well as surviving long enough to escape.

Since we're talking France, I'm reminded of the controversy over the unpolitically correct description of Muslim enclaves as no go zones. We're ahead of France, we have official no go zones, on public land. They need signs

[cripplecreek]

Even if that were so, and it is not, what might have been true 300 years ago is not necessarily the right answer for today.

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[Talisker]

Hypocrisy is an ugly thing.

[Paladin2]

"there is a myth in American culture that claims that only by possessing guns were the American rebels able to defeat the British and gain independence.

Even if that were so, and it is not,..... "

Repeat as your mantra leftists.....

[bunkerhill7]

"but also because there is a myth in American culture that claims that only by possessing guns were the American rebels able to defeat the British and gain independence."

He`s a moron,

1794 EVEN THE BRITISH IN 1794 ATTEST TO THE EXERCISE AND PRACTICE OF THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS BY AMERICAN KIDS PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775 “Events which served to shew [sic] that if the Americans were yet unacquainted with military discipline they were not destitute of either courage or conduct but knew well and dared to avail themselves of such advantages as they possessed. The people of the colonies are accustomed to the use of fire arms from their earliest youth and are in general good marksmen. Such men placed in a house behind a wall or amongst trees are capable of doing as much execution as regular soldiers. And to these advantages which they possessed during the greatest part of the nineteenth of April we may attribute the inconsiderable loss sustained by them compared with that of our detachments.”

Stedman,p.120 [The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the .American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1]

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: The right to shoot tyrants, not deer. By Andrew P. Napolitano; Thursday, January 10, 2013 The full article can be found here: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/10/the-right-to-shoot-tyrants-not-deer/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The principal reason the colonists won the American Revolution is that they possessed weapons equivalent in power and precision to those of the British government"

"But what is meant of our militia? Why, when he spoke of them, he meant American citizens, accustomed to the use of arms; not in the camp or in the field, but American citizens accustomed to use THEIR ARMS, and to all that manual dexterity which could only be gained by long practice; not field maneouvering and marching, but a perfect knowledge of the rifle and the musket. Such a use of the rifle that you could take the eye out of a squirrel on the highest tree. This was in all, and beyond this there was no necessity to go in this country. In this the soldiers of our country had a superiority of those of any other. Ask the British officers who were engaged in the last war whether there was no superiority in our troops in this respect."

"Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" , Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8

[Redcitizen]

” Stay away from backpacks and abandoned vehicles”

Sounds like a scene from the movie “no country for old men.”

[meadsjn]

almost all attempts to restrict guns in the U.S. fail. As a result, its gun death statistics are the highest in the world per capita, ...

I don't think this is even close to the truth.

[SampleMan]

Every time a Leftist opens their pie hole, they confirm why citizens must be armed to remain free.

[Billthedrill]

A fascinating piece. I think the author gets it, and would have gotten it earlier had he not been burdened with certain stereotypes and misconceptions courtesy of a biased, manipulative, and nearly omnipresent media campaign.

The NRA spends billions buying votes (as is the American way)...

Well, no it doesn't, either spend "billions" of dollars (there are 4 million members at $35 a pop - do the math) or "buy" votes - I wonder how the author imagines they'd do that anyway? They are, in fact, a successful lobbying organization, nothing more, and if certain of its members, myself included, expect more now and then we are brought back to earth pretty quickly.

He invokes Hobbes - yes, it is precisely the case that the citizen authorizes a primacy of violence to the state in return for protection. That is why one is not empowered to murder the murderers oneself. And the author takes that to the next, proper step: where the state fails to offer that protection, "the contract is void". Where the state fails to protect, the citizen is absolutely empowered to take steps to protect himself or herself. And - this is significant - where the state fails to punish the guilty on the basis of some overriding social concern, the contract is also void. We are never that far away from vigilantism, either in America or anywhere else, and we're getting closer by the day.

I believe those Jews who remain must be prepared to arm themselves.

The author is almost there. Because he does realize that although possession of the means to fight back cannot prevent violence altogether, it can and does ameliorate it. Only where the monster is the only one armed can he pick and choose his victims at will.

Almost there, but not quite, because I infer from the finish of the piece that the author is willing to grant citizens the right to defend themselves but not yet as a thing divorced from the state. Reason it through. The state has failed. It no longer has a right, nor did it ever, to control the citizens' possession of the means of self-defense.

One final quibble - the author has, as I mentioned, apparently swallowed the anti-NRA propaganda rather uncritically, as well as the notion that somehow European societies whose citizens are shorn of the right to possess firearms actually have achieved any relief from violence. That doesn't really stand up under scrutiny. Treating "gun violence" as a category separate from other violence, and lumping cases of self defense with a firearm under that category falsely has created a wildly inaccurate picture of the realities of American society. The author might profit from looking into that a little more closely.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“As a result, its gun death statistics are the highest in the world per capita,”

Wrong! The US is 111th in gun deaths per capita. There is so much wrong with this article, that I stopped reading there.

[Travis McGee]

[Lake Living]

Bill Whittle has a great video on this. He totally destroys this article and it’s arguments.

[elcid1970]

Stupid Europrick, go sip some absinthe & curse the evil Yankees. Then welcome your new Muslim masters whom the Koran says that only they may possess weapons.

[Raycpa]

The author is backing into the importance of the first two amendments and why they go together.

[apoliticalone]

There was a recent news article from NRA-ILA, that suggested how some Jewish institutions were writing letters to EU officials that Jews in Europe need to be armed.

All citizens need the right to be armed and to self defense as we’ve sen from ISIS.

[apoliticalone]

Too many of those in the media and in Congress that shrilly tout their anti-gun nonsense and Harvard diplomas are of the urban elite culture. Many are relative newbies to what is our multi century American culture that has always treated guns as commonplace as back scratchers.

[taxcontrol]

There was a movie once about a society where on the police and the military had weapons.

I’ts called “Shindlers List”.

[zeestephen]

The author has a real problem with basic facts:

(1) “The NRA spends billions buying votes (as is the American way) to ensure that anti-gun legislation is blocked.”

Actually, the NRA spends an average of $25 million each year on lobbying and election contributions.

They spend around $75 million a year keeping their membership informed on pending legislation and on media bias. Members pay annual dues for that information, so I'm not sure why that would be “vote buying.”

(2) American “gun death statistics are the highest in the world per capita...”

Completely false. Even when you include USA gun suicides, many Latin American countries and South Africa rank higher than America.

Even though America has the highest gun ownership in the world, we rank 110th out of 210 countries in gun homicides, which include murder, self defense, and accidental shootings.

The USA gun murder rate is also misleading. When Black and Hispanic murderers are excluded, the USA white gun murder rate is only slightly higher than the European rate, on average, about 1.0 to 1.5 per 100,000 higher.

[zeestephen]

Re: “French Jews who fear for their lives should leave.”

Few Americans realize that private gun ownership and the right-to-carry in Israel is severely restricted.

Gun ownership in America is about 10 to 1 higher than Israel.

Two recent events in Israel show the consequence.

Eight Israelis were stabbed on a bus, but only one fought back, the bus driver, who only had a can of Mace.

Four Israelis were shot and killed in a Synagogue. Not one person in the Synagogue had a firearm.

When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away.

[Begin]

I hope Jeremy Rosen gets stabbed.

[lavaroise]

Idiot is a bleeding heart antihunter.

hunters are the number one line of defense against poachers and animal eradication. They pay for guarding the wielderness they share with the animals. The whale hunt moratorium almost destroyed the whale population because the poaching Soviets were not controled and without ordered competition from commercial licensed whalers.

The same is true for the 2nd amendment. Without guns to protect life and property, criminals have no competition whatsoever, and the underfunded police is a joke. Criminals can roam and poach in neighborhoods and grab business with the mafias without problems.

It is a sociological phenomenum, but liberals supposedly into sociological manipulaton do not understand it as political aprentice sorcerers.