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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • Sept. 5, 2017 • Contact Boyd Kneeland
JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
RESPONDS TO CHARGES THAT TRUMP IS ANTI-SEMITIC
Official Statement:
"JPFO understands that 'many sides' must be considered in even the most controversial issue. Considering different views is not a sign of racism, anti-Semitism, fascism, white supremacy or other detestable values that the U.S. President has been accused of harboring. The meshugenah (crazy) thing is that the so-called 'news' media has abandoned examining many sides, their followers are in lock step and even suggesting an open mind leads to society-wide knee-jerk hysteria. Persistent lockstep groupthink has a deathly familiar ring."
"What is reprehensible is Charlottesville-type bigots' attempt to drape themselves in respectable robes, by sending unsolicited remarks to Mr. Trump. This does not attribute their values to the president. His decision to address them or not does not mean he holds their values. His failure to act as media decides he ought to yields no reasoned conclusion, despite media protestations. His actual actions show no signs of detestable values causing the media and the left such tumult."
"Worst of all, the only factions who publicly advocated for the preservation of historic monuments that fateful day were detestable societal dregs. They acted with an armed show of force that was not without merit. You certainly can't call the Jews of JPFO anti-Semitic or any other ugly epithets being hurled around. But you can accuse us for supporting the uninfringed right to go armed, and to preserve the rights, symbols and history we have always recognized. Tearing down history and monuments is what we expect from ISIS, not from democrats and American leftists. Needing to go armed to express views as we sorrowfully watch the peaceful public square evaporate threatens all Americans."
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Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, http://www.jpfo.org is America's most aggressive civil-rights organization, dedicated to destroying the notion of "gun control" as any kind of credible public-policy position. So-called "gun control" does not control guns and doesn't control criminal behavior. What it does do is disarm the innocent, leaving them helpless in the face of criminals, tyrannical governments and genocide. History repeatedly proves this fact. Founded in 1989 by Aaron Zelman as a response to the Holocaust, JPFO speaks with the moral authority and tenacious commitment of survivors of persecution, and knows that surrendering your personal and family safety to government protection courts disaster. "You don't have to be Jewish to fight by our side, you just have to love liberty."
