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?
Gazing from our bedroom window, we watch orange flames lick at the darkness, pillars of black smoke climbing 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?”
“After this is all over,” I vow, “I’m going to buy a pistol.”
Karen says: “How about a shotgun?”
If the Los Angeles riots taught us anything, it’s that you’re a fool if you count on the authorities to protect you in times of civil chaos — in fact, at any time. In the end, only I can protect my family.
I’m never, ever going to allow myself to be outgunned by the bad guys. All the gun laws that are on the books—and there are thousands of them—just make it that much easier for the barbarians to amass weapons and for law-abiding people like you and me to be at their mercy.
If you outlaw weapons, as so many squishy liberals yearn to do — well then, only the state and the outlaws will be armed. Which leaves ordinary citizens at the mercy of an all-powerful government and a variety of merciless criminal subcultures.
When Hitler and Stalin snatched power, one of their first moves was to outlaw private gun ownership. They understood that armed citizens are a mortal threat to totalitarian rule.
Imagine: several million Jews owning firearms between 1938 and 1945.
Is the mind capable of such a leap of faith or is it too painful?
One week after the riots I legally purchased a pistol: a 1911 Springfield .45. It’s the pistol I trained with in Israel. Yes, it’s heavy, and yes, the recoil kicks like a Rockette; but this is the weapon I know best and on good days I can shoot the wings off a fly at twenty-five yards. I cordially invite any mugger, rioter, criminal, gun-hating progressive, anarchist, or Jew-hating Islamist to come at me or my family, because now I am a Jew with a gun.
FADE TO BLACK
The End
Good choice in a personal protection weapon Robert. Amazing that now so many want to defund their police depts rather than reform the few and weed out the few.
Robert,
Glad all is well.
Today’s post is something I would forward, but no share button. Is that a new reality? Either way, worthwhile, for Christians as well as Jews, and we — the world, are in for big storm. Hurricane season coming up.
Stay safe, and I do not mean from the stupid scare tactic coupled with Covid 19.
Barry
In many cities these days, the mayors aren’t even having the police respond.
Perhaps some of your previously “gun shy” friends will be asking you for recommendations on hardware and training soon.
I keep praying that somehow, something good will come from all of this. I just cannot think what that could be.
Glad y’all are safe.
Good to hear from you, Patrick.
I have been asked by several friends about purchasing weapons for self-defense. I think it’s slowly dawning on some members of the Jewish community that only we can protect ourselves from the awful drip of Jew-hatred that emanates from the social justice crowd,
I’m glad they’re finally “seeing the light,” and that they have somebody knowledgable to ask.
And after they spend a little time on the range and get comfortable with their firearms, they’ll see how much fun target shooting is.