US Jews learn to shoot guns

[davidc4430]

US Jews learn to shoot guns as anti-Semitic violence continues to rise

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-05/us-america-jewish-community-anti-semitic-attacks-hanukkah/118...

its a worry when religous 'peace' loving people decide to take up arms.

i fully expect stories of innocent people getting murdered because they looked 'suspicious'

i follow a youtuber from the USA called 'furry potato' who is whats called a 'first amendment auditor'

its a small movement trying to test the ability to use the american citizens rights under their constitution by going out and filming govt and other entities from public view.

as enshrined in the US consitiution under 'free press'

she is a transgender former marine so she has had her fair share of bigotry in her life.

she has many youtube videos showing herself getting attacked and even shot!

because she was filming from a sidewalk!! and someone didnt like it.

[brerrabbit585]

There you go again - pretending to be an expert on religions and what they teach/preach/believe. I'm not aware that the bible says you have to let others attack you without defending yourself. Learning how to shoot doesn't have to mean you intend to shoot someone dead but could mean they want to be able to shoot the gun out of someone's hand.

You're showing that you're anti-Semitic by your post.

[icyfroth]

doesn't take much to be accused of being "anti-semitic", does it?

[domino-710]

393 million guns in the US.

Beats the population.

Sad that people are forced to arm to protect themselves - but a fact of liife in the US.

[isgodnu]

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@domino-710 wrote:

393 million guns in the US.

Beats the population.

Sad that people are forced to arm to protect themselves - but a fact of liife in the US.

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People in the US are not forced to arm to protect themselves.

They are allowed to arm to protect  themselves. There is a distinct difference.

A difference which defines the line between freedom and tyranny. 

It's sad that some people are not allowed to do so- but a fact of life in Australia

[domino-710]

Read the article.

"We cannot allow ourselves to continue to be helpless victims."

[davewil1964]

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@isgodnu wrote:

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@domino-710 wrote:

393 million guns in the US.

Beats the population.

Sad that people are forced to arm to protect themselves - but a fact of liife in the US.

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People in the US are not forced to arm to protect themselves.

They are allowed to arm to protect  themselves. There is a distinct difference.

A difference which defines the line between freedom and tyranny. 

It's sad that some people are not allowed to do so- but a fact of life in Australia

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Where we don't have massacres every second day. I suppose you could always move to the land of the free and the home of the NRA.

[imastawka]

They already do live there, Dave

And they're welome to it.

[springyzone]

I'm not a gun fan but I can understand where they are coming from.

You have to remember the history. If you have ever read a few stories of those who survived the holocaust of WW2, they say over & over they believed that if they were peaceful and put up no resistance to the more and more draconian regulations against them, that reason would prevail and people would see they were no threat.

As we know, it didn't work, they were just sitting ducks.

I believe the jews after the war decided not to let that happen again.

You start by saying... anti semitic violence continues to rise.

I imagine that if some of them are learning to shoot guns, it just means they are learning to defend themselves. They live in a society where a lot of other people, including some real loonies (in my opinion) can easily get hold of guns.

My son regularly goes to shooting training, he knows how to use a gun and has used it, but that doesn't mean he is a homicidal maniac and about to go out and shoot anyone.

I think the main problem in society-something I had trouble coming to grips with till i was older- is that there is no such thing as unilateral peace. It has to be a 2 way process and sometimes unfortunately, people need to defend themselves.

[isgodnu]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Read the article.

"We cannot allow ourselves to continue to be helpless victims."

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They have a choice.

You do not.