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‘Not safe anywhere now’: American Jews are flocking to gun training classes
nbcnews.com ^ | Oct. 22, 2023 | Scott McIntyre

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanjews; banglist; gunbuyer
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To: zeestephen

Sorry: propals=Pro Palestine activists assclowns.

🙏🇮🇱👍


61 posted on 10/22/2023 9:42:57 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: CodeToad

Guns are not the issue. Allegiances are.


A well regulated militia being necessary for ............

What is it necessary for?

You are right, it is the militia, the grouping up.

But everyone’s eyes go to the word arms, or thinks it is about guns.

Folks, we need to get to know our neighbors. Put the beer in the garage fridge, open the garage door and start grilling some meat.

FIND THE WARRIORS NOW.


62 posted on 10/22/2023 9:44:43 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CodeToad

Ohhhh so edgy. Why is it we can never find you guys in person out in that wild?


63 posted on 10/22/2023 9:47:11 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: God luvs America

“Yet they’ll still continue to vote for liberals”

And therein lies their problem. Simple as that.


64 posted on 10/22/2023 9:50:21 AM PDT by Parley Baer (GO )
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To: Levy78

“Why is it we can never find you guys in person out in that wild?”

Maybe you should get out of the coffee shop more?


65 posted on 10/22/2023 9:51:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: dfwgator; PROCON


66 posted on 10/22/2023 9:51:37 AM PDT by 4Liberty (https://twitter.com/Lauren3veMemes/status/1712636606983688420 )
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To: CodeToad

I’m out plenty and easy to find. Haven’t been able to get a nazi show up yet. All cowards.


67 posted on 10/22/2023 9:54:16 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: The Sons of Liberty
I wonder if Jews will continue to vote predominantly dem?

I had a liberal coworker who argued we had too much freedom. Then he bought a firearm. It didn't take long for him to become a Republican.

68 posted on 10/22/2023 9:55:50 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: zeestephen

“Am” in Hebrew means “people”. Not America.


69 posted on 10/22/2023 9:56:16 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: PROCON

Guess what. You’re on your own. YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Its good to see you wake up to that reality. Many of us have understood that for a long time. Get guns. Get ammo. Get some training. Practice. You have a god given right to self defense. Help make sure the gun grabbers are never able to deny you the means of defending yourselves and your families.
Welcome aboard. Glad to have you join us in the gun rights community.


70 posted on 10/22/2023 9:59:31 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: EinNYC; zeestephen

He’s mistaking ayin-mem for alef-mem.


71 posted on 10/22/2023 10:04:00 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: PROCON

Better Late than Never...

.
One needs the tools to take
Out the Trash.


72 posted on 10/22/2023 10:08:59 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Sadly, yes.


73 posted on 10/22/2023 10:12:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: ealgeone

I think they took the wrong lessons from the Holocaust. Basically, since the Nazis used guns, guns are bad.


74 posted on 10/22/2023 10:17:52 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator
Basically, since the Nazis used guns

Until they determined, that using guns was inhumane.....for the soldiers. Then they switched to gas.

75 posted on 10/22/2023 10:19:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PROCON

No kidding. FR Jews would have us believe every Jew in Israel went for strolls armed with full auto. Apparently not.


76 posted on 10/22/2023 11:03:50 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: PROCON

it’s not about Judaism, it’s about Zionism


77 posted on 10/22/2023 11:05:30 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: nevermorelenore

what is your understanding of the difference between the two?


78 posted on 10/22/2023 11:07:35 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: dfwgator; FRiends

Have you read, ‘In My Hands’ by Irene Gut Opdyke? One of my all-time heroes!

“Irene Gut was just seventeen in 1939, when the Germans and the Russians divided and devoured her native Poland. In an instant her life would be transformed—distilled to flight, capture, escape, and hiding.

After being rounded up outside of church one Sunday, Irene was put to work for the German Army. Her blond hair, her blue eyes, her youth—these bought her the relative safe job of kitchen helper and waitress in an officers’ dining room. But behind this Aryan mask, Irene began to wage her own war. She picked up snatches of conversation along with the Nazi’s dirty dishes and passed the information to Jews in the ghetto. She raided the German Warenhaus for food and blankets. She smuggled Jews from the work camp into the forest. And , when she was made the housekeeper for a Nazi Major, she managed to hide twelve people in the basement of his home and to keep them safe there until the Germans’ defeat.”

I can’t even IMAGINE being that brave.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Hands-Memories-Holocaust-Rescuer/dp/0679991816


79 posted on 10/22/2023 11:39:27 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: PROCON

they had better start voting Republican if they want to be able to own and use those guns!


80 posted on 10/22/2023 11:40:45 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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