Comments on: A Modest 5-Part Proposal for Jews Who Are Ambivalent About Guns

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:29:21 +0000

Great comments. But, what Bernstein fails to mention here, “For decades, many mainstream Jewish organizations have poured energy into advocating for gun control measures that have no realistic chance of passing”, is a much MORE important reason for Jews to arm themselves. As the Holocaust recedes in to forgotten history for recent generations, a most critical lesson is lost; every occsion, without fail, where civilians have been disarmed, has served as a precursor for autocratic rule. The examples of this would be a litany too vast for this comment, but the most obvious recent example is where anyone in GB who expresses outrage at the mass invasion of their country by anti-Semitic savages is prosecuted. Anyone who would disarm us is actively plotting our demise.

By: Jimmy Foles

Jimmy Foles — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:49:20 +0000

I have a client who’s business is adjacent to a Jewish elementary school in a large metro. Whenever the kids are present there is a man present watching over them. The man is about 50 years old and is a ginger, with the map of Dublin printed on his face. Even on hot days he wears a sport coat, indicating to me he is carrying a gun. He is smart, he recognizes patterns. The first few times he saw me he watched me carefully. After he saw me walking with my client, who wears a kippah and has the map of Jerusalem ingrained on his face, he stopped giving me a second look.
In short the school had hired a retired Irish ex-cop to protect their kids from any variety of violent nuts, but principally muslims. So they are not adverse to paying people to protect their kids. But given the open antisemitism of the day and the intensity of those residing in an internet bubble, they really need to arm up themselves. Every manner of nut hates them. And moslems don’t care if you are a liberal Jew or a Trump Jew.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:14:08 +0000

I read a memoir by a guy who had been a Jewish partisan in WW2 somewhere out in the woods of Lithuania. Figured out that the Germans intended to kill them all so bugged out of the ghetto. But for the first year they had more casualties from what we would call NDs than from SS actions. So some clue about the 4 Rules would be useful.

By: Old Guy

Old Guy — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:33:43 +0000

Mr Bernstein says: “While your father or grandfather may have walked to school through the boroughs of New York City,” I am 75 and grew up in NYC and when my father and grandfather walked to school in NYC most if not all of the schools and colleges in NYC had ranges in the basements and smallbore target teams and they participated in competitions. Until 1968 you did not need a Firearms ID in NYC and while a teenager in Queens I would get on the subway with my cased rifle to meet up with friends to go hunting in upstate NY on a Police Department sponsored trip. This was the 1960s and many people had fought in WWII and Korea so familiarity with firearms was more common than now. Starting in the 60’s the city made a decided push against firearms – many college programs were shutdown, any existing HS programs soon disappeared also. In NJ the same thing was happening. Democratic and liberal administrations decided that guns were a problem rather than deal with the root of the problem – people. It was easier to say they were doing something about the problem even if they really weren’t. It was all about the look.
We, the people, are the only ones that are actually responsible for our own safety. The courts have said that the police (government) has no responsibility for protecting you. To look to the government is a delusion, to think that just by passing a law you will be protecting is also a delusion.

By: Yehiel Handlarz

Yehiel Handlarz — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:50:12 +0000

In reply to Felix. Remnants of the Country Club image of Republicans.

By: Yehiel Handlarz

Yehiel Handlarz — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:47:31 +0000

In reply to Chris T in KY. Not in Israel.

By: Scott in Phx

Scott in Phx — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:47:29 +0000

In reply to Nicks87.

Hamas is lucky I wasn’t running the Israeli response to 10/7

There would have been a least 100,000 heads on pikes around Gaza now as a warning not to do it again

And they would have been starved into surrender in 3 months

By: Yehiel Handlarz

Yehiel Handlarz — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:35:46 +0000

In reply to Chris T in KY. "Murder Inc." had no aversion to guns. All criminals. Their demise was the start of the Mob's demise.

By: Yehiel Handlarz

Yehiel Handlarz — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:30:53 +0000

In reply to Nicks87. "Do unto others before they do unto you."

By: Marty murphy

Marty murphy — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:31:42 +0000

Nobody needs a gun until he needs one real bad.