The Gundie Awards

Greetings my friends, both Jews and non Jews alike. Hanukah is almost here. We celebrate the miracles but we must also teach our children that this was about Jews refusing to bow down even on penalty of death. They took up arms and fought against vastly superior numbers, and they won.

Unfortunately, we ended up being expelled from the land of our heritage. In the two millennia of wandering that ensued, Jews were almost always forbidden the right to armed self-defense. Jews were frequently considered second and third-class citizens who could not strike back at a non-Jew even when not resisting probably meant death. Against widespread state mandated oppression, the only choice was to flee and try to start again somewhere else, and even that was sometimes forbidden.

But not in America. Here we have the 2^nd Amendment, literally the right to keep and bear arms. It is an awesomely powerful check on the governments ability to oppress its citizens, but it only functions when we exercise it.

You and I know that there are many quislings today who dream of tyranny and that most of these are also Jew haters. They have worked long and hard to cast the those who are pro-gun as strange, violent, an aberration…sometimes even as cancer. Sadly their machinations have had an outsized success on Jews, for reasons others at JPFO have described in great detail. …