Yesterday the Mrs. and I went out and ended up putzing around South Carolina’s nicest pawnshop where my wife got me an early anniversary present (19 Years on Jan 22nd!) the Charter Arms Patriot in .327 Federal Magnum. This is actually the first handgun I’ve owned, as I’ve been happy with my shotguns for home defense and having lived in NY, NJ and CT I’ve never felt like jumping through the bureaucratic hoops blue staters have created for law abiding citizens.
We had begun thinking about a handgun mainly because of the devolving political situation here in America, where a humble blogger like myself can attract dozens of death threats a year, and it behooves me to suggests to my Jewish friends they should be doing the same.
Since military operations began in Gaza the protests in Europe and here in America have been characterized by such extreme anti-Semitism that it is hard to believe that any Jewish citizen feels safe without the ability to defend themselves. These protests have united leftists and Islamist groups who are feeding on the nihilism and blood lust of each other in an ever escalating spiral of violent hatred. Don’t believe me? Here are a few links that will change your mind:
There were two car bombs targeting synagogues in France. The synagogues were full at the time so this was an attempted murder.
Pro-Hamas posters have been hung on synagogues in Los Angles.
Atlas is warning people of a Communist plot to riot at synagogues. Rise Up has sent out an email calling for activists to disrupt Jewish services and confront American Jews “with their clear responsibility- far more than complicity-in the mass murders, occupation, and forced starvation of the people of Palestine” in a stark statement reminiscent of neo-Nazi propaganda. Claiming Jews here are responsible for Israeli military operations is one step away from blood libel.
Also at Atlas, Jewish shops in Paris are being looted in organized anti-Semitic attacks. From The Chicago Sun-Times:
PARIS – Looters ransacked a Paris watchmakers and grabbed more than a quarter of a million dollars (200,000 euros) worth of stock in the wake of a protest against Israel’s Gaza offensive, the shop said Monday.
A manager of the Louis Pion boutique in central Paris’ Opera district said “40 vandals came in, in three successive waves at three-minute intervals,” on Saturday. Police confirmed they had opened an inquiry.
More than 20,000 demonstrators marched in Paris on Saturday to protest Israel’s assault on Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and, while most dispersed peacefully, between 200 and 300 went on the rampage.
Following the protest, mobs that peeled off from the main march overturned around a dozen cars, burning several of them, and smashed the windows of several shops on Paris’s iconic shopping street, the Boulevard Haussmann.
Jewish neighborhoods are also under siege in Sweden, a Dutch MP has called for an Intifada against Jews in his country and a new Pew Poll shows that in Spain a shocking 46% of Spaniards think negatively of Jews. Compare this to America where 77% of Americans have favorable views of Jews. According to the poll, Spain’s anti-Semitism has doubled since 2005.
One American without positive views of Jews is Ron Paul, who simply cannot bring himself to condemn Hamas rocket fire. Given how popular Paul is with the young, I find this worrisome.
The list goes on and on. Jews are being targeted by the Leftists and Islamists for violence while the world does nothing. It is the 1930s again, and we are months from a pogrom here in America. The time for debate is almost over. If my Jewish friends think liberals here will never allow anti-Semitism to get out of control they have not been paying attention to where the left has lurched to and who they now travel with. It’s time to think seriously about the defense of your homes and community. Buy a gun, learn to use it and be ready when the Brownshirts and their Mohammedan allies come for you.
And what of the rest of us? Do we sit idle while our friends and neighbors are attacked for their “clear responsibility” for the imagined crimes Jew-hating Marxists like to whip crowds into a frenzy with? Do we Americans, of various faiths, allow our fellow citizens to suffer a second Holocaust? Because that is what we are coming to. We cannot allow the Jews to be scapegoated, to become the target of a radical movement that has an ear in the new government. We must fight for our friends and stand up for what is right, physically if necessary, because the wave of violence against Jews, I fear, has just begun.