Jews Are Embracing Self-defense

From Joel Pollak, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart, by way of Jews Can Shoot - Blue State Blues: Shooting Hitler Targets With Some Hard-Core Jews

Not all of course. The political "elite" are still aligned with the Democrats and their hatred of guns and gun owners.

When Obama says a terror attack by a radical, ISIS-sympathizing Islamist is just “random” street violence against “folks” in a deli, you start to doubt the government’s interest in protecting you and your community–never mind its interest in protecting the Jewish state from nuclear-powered fanatics half a world away.

You also start to doubt the mental competence of the Jewish establishment when its leaders join left-wing Democrats and professional Israel-bashers in publicly opposing a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress.

That political backdrop, of the casual acceptance of antisemitism, forms the basis for some changes Joel Pollak went through a few years back.

The article as a whole covers his day at the range learning to shoot with Jews Can Shoot, "a project of the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors."

Doris began our day at the shooting range with an impassioned lecture about why Jews in particular needed to be ready. “In Europe, the pessimists left. The optimists went to Auschwitz,” she said.

Handouts distributed with the course recalled how the Nazis used gun control laws and gun registration to identify and disarm Jews and others who might have resisted the regime.

Click thru and RTWT. Though the article was originally from 2015, it feels current. I hope he updates it.