Posted on 10/22/2023 8:28:16 AM PDT by PROCON
“We can’t put down the phone without picking up the next one,” said a rabbi in Los Angeles who runs a nonprofit that offers firearm training to the Jewish community.
Henya Chein has always been terrified of guns. The Orthodox Jewish artist and mother of two felt uneasy about her husband’s decision to buy a handgun after they moved to Florida from New York last year.
“I would just block it out of my mind that it’s in the house,” Chein, 26, said.
But after watching the events unfold in Israel, she’s taken steps she never imagined herself ever taking. Chein attended a gun safety seminar at her synagogue last week followed by a one-on-one session at a local shooting range.
“Even at the range, I just wanted to drop the gun and run back home,” Chein said. “I was so scared, and I’m terrified of it.”
But she said she felt “forced to do it because Jewish people are not safe anywhere now.”
The deadly terrorist attack in Israel and the torrent of social media threats that followed have forced many American Jews to reconsider their long held stances against owning or using guns.
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After Trump moved our Israel embassy to Jerusalem and brokered a peace treaty between Israel and four or five Muslim countries, 77% of Jewish Americans went to the polls in 2020 and voted for Joe Biden.
Most Jewish Americans will NEVER abandon their commitment to the goals of the Political Left.
That’s right.
Indeed.
Dumb generalization.
‘Shield of the People’
Magen means shield in Hebrew.
Am might refer to America.
Am might also be an abbreviation for "Shield of Abraham."
Again I ask, anyone heard where the DOH-j/LEO is keeping the “propals” that took over the capital last week? Hello? Bueller? Is this thing 🎤 on?
Kind of like when Gov Abbott sent some illegals up north.
Say What? This is real?? OMG!!
Just don't do what I did and give Wayne LaPierre their home phone #.
Hebrew to English translation on Bing...
Mother shield.
What does that mean?
Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, JPFO, has been enthusiastically pro-gun for over 30 years. I’m sure their membership is growing now.
Good meme.
As one of my ex-Jewish friends said we aren’t that type of Jew. Meaning, they aren’t like the Israelis. What a schmuck.
I for one, would be proud to train any Jews in my area in firearms handling, firearms safety, rifle/pistol/shotgun firing, marksmanship and defensive firearms tactics at the Quantico Marine Base range on any weekend that range is open.
Changes are in the air.
Yes, there is. Israeli Jews’ life is, and always has been. threatened daily, they should have been armed. They are, or should be, fighting for the soil they stand on.
American Jews are not there yet, thus they see no reason to own guns...until now.
“Dumb generalization.”
Generalization of the dumb isn’t dumb.
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