Jew Without A Gun

Portrait of the Artist as Jew With Gun

June 15, 2020 by Robert J. Avrech 4 Comments

During times of, ahem, civil unrest, I rely on the beauty of art and the sanity of self-defense for my well-being and safety. My mood-board includes a Ruger .32 H&R Magnum Bird’s Head grip pistol.

I am republishing my three-part series, Jew Without A Gun, about the riots of 1992 in which Karen and I and the children were trapped for several frightening hours. We were unarmed, helpless save for our wits. The police were conspicuously absent and the bad guys—frequently armed with heavy weapons—owned the streets.

It was a defining moment in my life.

I’m reposting this series as a cautionary tale because when criminals go on murderous rampages the left invariably blames the actions of evil men on hunks of steel, piously calling for ever more gun laws. The ultimate aim, of course, is to disarm law-abiding American citizens through mass gun confiscations.

If the Democrat party’s vision is fulfilled all of America will become defenseless, as were we, during the Rodney King riots.

Part One

Hollywood is Burning

Hollywood is on fire.

Karen and I lock every door in the house, shut tight the windows. We move through the house switching off all the lights.

Gazing from our bedroom window we watch orange flames lick at the darkness, pillars of black smoke climb into the sky. We can actually smell the acrid odor of burning rubber.

“Look how close they are,” says Karen.

“Just past La Cienega. Maybe eight blocks away.”

Karen gives me a long penetrating gaze:

“What do we do if they come here?”

My mind is racing away. The truth is we are defenseless. Unless I get crazy inventive like Dustin Hoffman in Straw Dogs.

“After this is all over,” I vow, “I’m going to buy a pistol.”

Karen says: “How about a shotgun?”

Dissolve to—

Two Hours Earlier:

Portrait of the Artist During LA Riots… Jew With A Gun

June 8, 2020 by Robert J. Avrech 5 Comments

My palette now includes a Remington .20 Gauge pump action shotgun.

Here’s how I ended “Jew Without a Gun” my three part series about our terrifying night during the LA Riots of 1992:

And then, of course, the race hustlers — Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Maxine Waters, the usual vulgar demagogues — parade across TV screens informing the good citizens of Los Angeles that the riots were really “an uprising.”

Oh, really?

As in: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising?

Jews With and Without Guns

October 25, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

When Karen and I were in Israel we were comforted by the presence everywhere of Jews with guns. Karen’s brother David, an accomplished lawyer, Rabbi and businessman, carries his Glock nearly everywhere.

David is a good man. Thus, he is a good man with a gun.

The reason he carries a gun—and is licensed to do so in the Jewish state—is because there are millions of bad men and women, IslamoNazis, who seek to kill every Jew in Israel, every Jew on the face of the earth.

The only defense against a bad man with a weapon—any weapon—is a good man with a weapon.

Jew Without a Gun: 25 Years Ago, the LA Riots

April 27, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech 2 Comments

This coming Saturday marks the 25the anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots.

Thus, I am republishing my three-part series about the riots of 1992 in which Karen and I and the children were trapped for several frightening hours. We were unarmed, helpless save for our wits. The police were conspicuously absent and the bad guys—frequently armed with heavy weapons—owned the streets.

It was a defining moment in my life.

I’m reposting this series as a cautionary tale because when IslamoNazis go on murderous rampages the left invariably blames the actions of evil men on hunks of steel, piously calling for ever more gun laws. The ultimate aim, of course, is to disarm law-abiding American citizens through mass gun confiscations.

If the Democrat party’s vision is fulfilled all of America will become defenseless, as were we, a quarter century ago.

Prager U: Is Gun Ownership a Right?

February 28, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech 2 Comments

Another splendid short from Prager University.

What does the Second Amendment say? Is gun ownership a right for all Americans? Or just for a small militia? Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA, explains what the Founding Fathers intended.