Posted on 03/07/2010 2:20:39 PM PST by smokingfrog
In the year after the election of Barack Obama as president, more than 14 million weapons were sold in the United States compared with 12.7 million the year before. Gun-shop owners have argued that the rise in sales is linked in part to concerns that the Democratic administration will try to restrict the rights of Americans to hold weapons under license.
The Obama administration has not taken a clear stance on the issue, but in some U.S. states legal battles over the right to bear arms has begun in earnest.
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Much of the Jewish community has remained outside the debate: Some 90 million U.S. residents hold 200 million firearms, but only a tiny minority of American Jews have guns. However, there appears to be a revival among supporters of the right to bear arms among Jews who say that attitudes are changing because of new threats they face.
One of them is Dovid Bendory, an Orthodox rabbi, 42, from New Jersey. Not only did he buy a gun, he also became an authorized shooting instructor and is giving lessons to members of the Orthodox community. He also distributes material that explains, on the basis of biblical texts, the right of Jews to self-defense.
"I did not grow up with guns, not even with toy guns," he says. "I think that the first time I saw a real gun was when I visited Israel at age 16. But I began to think about weapons seriously after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As far as I'm concerned, the Twin Towers disaster changed the entire scene, because until then we thought that the terrorist threat existed only outside the US."
Another turning point was the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, where one of the targets was the Chabad House.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
A little on topic. Note my posts 12 and 20. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar experiences.
My favorite place to buy and sell guns here in Nashville is owned by an Orthodox Jew who, if I recall correctly, grew up in Brooklyn. Closed on Saturday, but that’s OK with me. Great guy, great service and fair prices. Eastside Gun Shop, Nashville TN
I mention this only because the article is from an Israeli paper. You can do that in the US. If I moved to Israel, 5 decades shooting and military service would count for naught, I couldn't own a firearm. Unless I had an acceptable job, or under some circumsatance, lived in the West Bank. You'd probably be in the same circumstance. Israel's gun laws are nuts, they shouldn't be telling us about gun rights. I should add that, due to broad military service, firearms are far more visible than in the US, but it's the British system, the individual right nonexistant.
Then I'll give the harsh answer. Most jews have a martyrdom complex. "It's poor little us and someday it's going to happen to me because it's God's will. Oh, well, what can you do about it".
I would prefer to lay the blame where it actually lies, i.e., Hitler and the German people, rather than invoke a supernatural boogeyman.
had to be smashed,
It was, thanks to the sacrifices of the Allies.
and the devil yet giggles on behind the scenes.
I'll have to take you word for that, never having seen any evidence that such a being exists.
Secular explanations can’t explain why the Jews have lasted as long as they have, nor why they seem to draw hate so frequently. Both phenomena are beyond the usual range for identifiable non-Jewish population groups. The Bible points to a spiritual battle.
Most Jews who lose a sense of the supernatural, incidentally, end up melting away into the overall population or leaving no progeny at all.
It’s a curious note that the Allies largely comprised the leading Christianized societies of the world at the time. This is not curious at all to a supernaturalist.
I agree. I’m just tired to saying things like this over and over again. There are some other things involved, too, but you’re spot on concerning this one.
There should be a rule here, Israelis with guns mentioned, must have pics of Israeli babes with guns.
MY best friend, too! Same exact story. My best friend, however is a retired Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and combat decorated too. He really was the "black sheep" of his family, lol.
Lox & Load
So many refuse to believe that Lucifer is real and that he manipulates mankind to do his bidding.
I could show you how he does that in person....but that will never happen.
Lucifer hates the Jews.....and that is what is going on here.
There is a huge battle in that dimension where Jesus and lucifer ezist....but then again so few out there believe that is possible.
5.56mm
In the year after the election of Barack Obama as president, more than 14 million weapons were sold in the United States compared with 12.7 million the year before... One of them is Dovid Bendory, an Orthodox rabbi, 42, from New Jersey. Not only did he buy a gun, he also became an authorized shooting instructor and is giving lessons to members of the Orthodox community. He also distributes material that explains, on the basis of biblical texts, the right of Jews to self-defense... "As far as I'm concerned, the Twin Towers disaster changed the entire scene, because until then we thought that the terrorist threat existed only outside the US." Another turning point was the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, where one of the targets was the Chabad House.Thanks smokingfrog.
Perhaps you might concede that having a scattered people maintain a very significant distinct identity after having no homeland for over 2500 years, and then to have them regain it, is unprecedented and rather extraordinary. And that the Bible clearly foretelling both the scattering of these people into every direction, and of their regathering is significant. And that its prediction of a temple in Jerusalem, and future climatic war (naming nations, albeit open to interpretation), and its description of a thermonuclear blast, is plausible. As is having special mark of allegiance to a civil ruler, whom the whole world in general holds in wonder. I certainly do, but far more evidences that Jesus is real.
How many armed people got shipped to Treblinka?
Thanks for that smokingfrog.
We need a different word for “dog tags” in this instance.
Esther 9:1-2
1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, the king’s decree was supposed to be executed. The enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower the Jews that day, but the plot was overturned, and the Jews overpowered their enemies.
2 Throughout King Achashvairosh’s provinces the Jews gathered in their cities to defend themselves against those who tried to hurt them. No one could withstand them, because everyone was afraid of them.
>>>How many armed people got shipped to Treblinka?<<<
My thoughts exactly.
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