Americans Are Supposed to BeArmed with Weapons of War

“Weapons of Surrender?”

December 2018 1

You don’t haveto be Jewish to

fight by our side.You just have to

love liberty.The Voice of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Vol. 1, No. 15

Heroic Student WinsDavid and Goliath Award

Kyle Kashuv Rises Above Dark-Money Prop-aganda Campaign Seducing Other Parkland

High School StudentsKyle Kashuv, a student thrust into the national spot-light after mass murders at the Parkland, Fla., high

school he at-tends, has re-ceived TheDavid andGoliathAward for

courageously speaking out in defense of liberty. Mr.Kashuv disagrees with controversial fellow class-mates who have been receiving substantial dark-money funding, and saturation media coverage insupport of familiar “gun-control” measures follow-ing the massacre. Continued on Page 7

EDUCATION WILL BE KEY TOGUN RIGHTS GOING FORWARDWith Congress Split, Massive Anti-Rights Acts Unlikely

JPFO Position Paper— The new Dept. of Justicesettlement, “finding” that the AR-15 rifle is not aweapon of war, and thus is “OK” for civilian owner-ship is preposterous. So-called gun-rights groupsthat cheered this development have no depth of un-derstanding.

The Founding Fathers expected Americans to bearmed for war, to resist tyranny. The historicalrecord is clear and explicit. We are and must re-main armed to resist. Tyranny does not arrivearmed for hunting ducks. It comes armed forslaughtering the public. Armed to bend you to itsevil will. Supremely armed to force you into subju-

gation. Our mice in Congress have allowed this tohappen. But federal agencies would still face signif-icant armed opposition, if it came to it, and theyknow it. They like it not. It must remain that way.

One angle of the leftist and government assaulton a freely armed populace is to have us sub-armed. They’ve decided it’s OK for Americans tohave guns as long as they are crummy, low power,slow to operate, unreliable, with limited ammo andnow, not “weapons of war.” It’s the next best thingto unarmed—when the government has endlessaccess to machine guns and anything else it deems

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Kyle Kashuv (l) accepts the Davidand Goliath Award from Bill ofRights Sentinel editor Alan Korwinat the gun Rights Policy Conferencein Chicago, Sep. 22, 2018.

grace and rights-ensuring freedom of individualarms ownership and possession, a massive cam-paign to bring newcomers to the range needs tostart without delay. Religious worshippers in allfaiths are now much more keenly aware of thedangers of ignorance, lack of defensive arms, un-protected spaces, and the propensity for craziesand haters to act out lethally without morals or re-morse. You remain the first responder.

A Day at the Range—After ServicesThe conclusion of services on the Sabbath (Sat-

urday for Jews, Sunday for Christians) is a perfecttime to open discussions on biblical and secularprinciples about use of force for righteous pur-poses. Honest examinations of the subject end uprecognizing that you can’t morally be compelledto arm yourself, or even defend yourself and yourfamily. But forcibly denying those abilities andtools to others are acts of violence, enforced bypolice at the point of a gun. Demanding servilityand defenselessness is evil. Being active or pas-sive, these are choices free individuals make.

Religious leaders must begin encouraging theircongregants to get training. Our politicians andcertainly our public schools will not do it. Ask

The American public dodged a bullet in themidterm elections. Had both houses of Congressremained in republican hands, the fury and be-haviors we’ve witnessed from the left might likelyhave intensified. Trump derangement syndromecould have reached even higher levels. Left-wingacting out on intensely perceived fears would havehelped nobody.

In contrast, had the left and democrats takenboth houses, the right to arms could have facedassaults so dire the public’s muzzles might havebeen called into play. As JPFO members areaware, unlike many misinformed citizens, Amer-ica is armed to protect itself, deter tyranny, and toprevent confiscation of its arms, an evil goal theleft no longer sugar coats.

To improve future election results, insure do-mestic tranquility, and help guarantee the saving

your religious leader to conduct a roundtable onself defense. Defenseless Jews lead to the horrorswe all know. It is no different for journalists, gaysin nightclubs, employees in workplaces, recruitersin armed-forces offices and especially, students inschools with hapless unarmed teachers. (Whenand how did teachers lose their Second Amend-ment rights anyway?) The public needs to bebrought up to speed on these issues. Mass mediais doing the opposite, keeping people either in thedark or misinformed. Educate. You’re the teacher.

“The education establishment ishopelessly anti-rights on guns, it’sup to the public and free markets

to do the educating.”

1. The NRA does exceptional work in many areas,including representing gun owners in Congressand state legislatures. JPFO stands alone thoughas the only national organization willing to callout any group when they compromise on princi-ple, and play good-guy-bad-guy with BATFE andother bureaucracies promoting “gun control”and bad gun laws. Do you support JPFO in main-taining that voice?

☐ YES ☐ NO ☐ DON’T KNOW ☐ DON’T CARE2. A recent national survey indicated Millennials

and even adults have lost sight of the Nazi Holo-caust, and the role “gun control” and gun regis-tration played in enabling the mass wartimeslaughter of millions of people in Russia, Europe, North Africa and of course Jews in con-centration camps. JPFO keeps this unholy gov-ernment agenda front and center in the minds ofAmericans. Do you consider this importantwork?

☐ YES ☐ NO ☐ DON’T KNOW ☐ DON’T CARE3. JPFO is willing to go up against the most power-

ful voices in the so-called “news” media with

editorials, news releases, eblasts, our website,broadcast interviews and the Bill of Rights Sentinel newsletter, to contradict the constantflow of lies and misinformation journalists, whoare little more than propagandists, flood overthe public. Is this something JPFO should con-tinue to do?

☐ YES ☐ NO ☐ DON’T KNOW ☐ DON’T CARE4. If the AR-15 sport-utility rifle is too dangerous

for the public to own, then it is too dangerousfor: ☐ Police ☐ Sheriffs ☐ CIA ☐ FBI ☐ TSA ☐ FBI ☐ Anybody ☐ Nobody ☐ Criminals ☐ Terrorists. Bonus question: Why can a person with a shinybadge, or a hardened criminal, have what youcan’t have?

5. Extra Credit Essay Questions: a) Why will criminals obey new laws when they

didn’t obey the old ones? (12 words or less,worth 12,000 points).

b) Would you support gun bans for gun-ban advocates? If yes (in other words make gunbans voluntary), would this do: “As a gun-

ban advocate, I hereby relinquish any right Ihave to keep and bear arms, forever, underpenalty of felony arrest. Sign here.” Must benotarized.

6. Children commit mass murder because:a) They believe it will make them famousb) They get the idea from mass mediac) They see it promoted on social mediad) Movies and TV glorify killing and crimee) Video games train them and encourage

murderf) They enjoy reading the manifestos of their

dead friendsg) They think getting shot won’t hurth) They are on psychotropic drugs and can’t

think straighti) They got off psychotropic drugs and can’t

think straightj) They have no sense of morality or religionk) They are angry and don’t know how to deal

with itl) Schools teach gun safety and proper gun usem)Guns are evil and make them do itn) All of the above except (l) and (m)

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Amnesty International Fa-cilitates Abuse?

AI has lamented the humanitarian crises in Syria,The Philippines, China, North Korea, El Salvador,Central African Republic, Egypt, Turkey, Myanmar,Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo andSaudi Arabia. The reason these countries have suchmurderously oppressed people has a commonthread—because the people can’t defend them-selves—only authorities have guns. Though it’s acommon theme, this altruistic outfit and its sup-porters never get near the idea of empowerment,they simply complain about the aggressors. Riddleus this: If the people in any of these despoticregimes were armed, instead of facing absolutegovernment monopoly on power, could the inno-cent be tortured, executed and exterminated withsuch ease?

Women Victims of Sexual Assault Should Get Armed.With evidence that could not be more clear, andliterally countless numbers of women coming for-ward about me-too prior assaults, harassment,rape and even torture, JPFO reiterates its positionthat Americans should exercise their freedom tobe armed for personal safety and self defense.Without an edge (generally speaking) in strengthand size, women are clearly in more need offirearms than they currently realize. Fortunately,women gun owners and firearms safety classes forwomen are trending upwards, a positive develop-ment JPFO applauds.

For perspective, however, you should realize thatfor many men, entrance into marriage is the begin-ning of a long, arduous slog through life. So-calledhelpless women henpeck, complain, badger, makelife miserable and boss their men around withoutmercy, leading to all the marriage jokes that float

around. Both sexes do each other wrong, don’t letdominant media messages twist your thinking. Suf-fering is bad regardless of type or source. Mar-riage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence. A man’s notcomplete until he’s married. Then he’s finished.

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Lifetime Ban on GunRights Weakens

One of the great inequities in the operation of theSecond Amendment is this idea of a lifetime banon the right to arms. While such a ban mightmake sense for truly evil, dangerous and incorri-gible villains, who by definition should be re-moved from society altogether, a lifetime ban onrights for other people is, also by definition, aquestionable concept. Currently, a felony convic-tion for anything, including nonviolent offenses,attaches a lifetime ban, and even some misde-meanors can have the same odious effect.

Cracking this legal wall, Chief Judge Christo-pher Conner of the U.S. District Court for theMiddle District of Pennsylvania ruled that Ray-mond Holloway’s second misdemeanor DUI con-viction in 2005 did not merit a lifetime loss ofone of his constitutional rights. The judge ap-plied the landmark standard from Binderup v.U.S. Attorney General, where the 3rd CircuitCourt of Appeals found conviction of certain non-violent offenses cannot be a bar from owningfirearms for the rest of your life. This good newsmust spread.

Brooklyn borough president, democrat Eric L.Adams, responding to the Tree of Life Synagogueattack, said he would be armed and ready shouldan attacker target a synagogue in his county. TheNew York Times said Adams, a black retired NYCpolice captain who admitted his decision to carry agun for defense of himself and fellow worshiperswould not be applauded politically, added, “It’s notpopular, but it’s right. I will bring my handgunevery time I enter a church or synagogue.”

Jewish leaders hailed Adams’ announcement andsaid they would be pursuing a gun license, a diffi-cult task for gentry in gun-hating New York. “I ap-plaud and agree with Eric Adams and I amregistering immediately for a gun license” saidone. “And I encourage other Jews to do so to pro-tect their institutions and synagogues. If we are tar-gets, we need to be prepared.” JPFO does notsupport the idea of needing licenses to exerciserights, but it’s a start on the path to greater free-dom and safety.

The day after the heinous attack, Breitbart’s JoelPollak stressed, “We Jews have the Second Amend-ment; we should use it.” He added, “The Torahalso commands us to use deadly force to stopsomeone who intends to kill others and cannot bestopped any other way. Thankfully, we have the Sec-ond Amendment. We should use it.”

Jews Get Wise After Synagogue Murders

CONFISCATION CLOCKWith the midterm election splitting Congress,the chances of significant gun-related legisla-tion moving quickly forward at the federallevel seem remote.Anti-gun-rights democ-rats now hold theHouse, and marginallypro-gun-rights republi-cans strengthened theirhold on the Senate,creating at least the ap-pearance of an im-passe. State-levelchanges vary by state,some good, some badfrom a rights perspec-tive. Only time will tellhow states move re-specting the SecondAmendment rights of their residents. TheConfiscation Clock’s hands remain un-changed, almost a surprise.

The biggest factor looming on the horizonmay be so-called “red-flag laws,” which de-spite desperately flawed principles have been

enacted in severalstates. The democratsare pushing for a na-tional declare-your-neighbor-unfit bill, andits superficial appealmight sway some repub-licans to get on board.That deserves watchingand fierce resistance—it would eradicate dueprocess, the 2nd, 4thand 10th Amendments(at least), and swing theClock violently towardmidnight. Remember:

People truly unfit to bear their ownarms are unfit to be out in public. Pressfor good laws, move the hands back some.

Democrats “Medicare For All” GunPlan Exposed:Everyone knows it’s unaffordable, but democratsunderstand, regardless, it’s a winning ballot-boxissue. How do you argue with free medicine forall? You need to see the scope of this attack onyour gun rights. If democrats gain power to enactanything pretending to be free medicine, it willinclude every anti-gun scheme they’ve proposedfor decades:

Doctor questioning of patients about guns in thehome, online medical records for NICS access,mental tests, doctor approvals required for pur-chasing, use-of-medication gun bans, red-flagguilt without trials, disenfranchisement for usingan accountant, prior military experience bans, itcould not be worse—unless you seek to disarmthe populace.

Roe v. Wade Was a Red HerringNPR confirmed: The left wasn’t really concernedabout Roe v Wade with the Kavanaugh nomination.That was just a convenient talking point. They werefighting against gun rights, without saying so verypublicly. Though common knowledge, “news”media hid the fact, and stirred up animosity overwomen’s bodies (in more ways than one).

Big Brother Is In Your HomeOnly four years after Amazon launched the Echohome listening device, published reports indicate24% of U.S. homes have a “smart speaker,” andmany have more than one. It wasn’t enough whenthe state (police) started wearing cameras (bigbrother watches you, not them), people now invitesnoop machines home and pay to have them. Ifyou talk guns at home, do so quietly, with musicon loud. Your cellphone too. Though idle, it hearsif it’s got power.

Finding Common GroundHow to disarm furious pointless gun debates withhoplophobes, socialists and similar. Seek commonground. Simply ask: “We probably at least agreecompletely on taking guns from criminals, right?OK, so we both want that.” Pause. “And you don’twant police to give up their guns, right again? OK,so we have some agreement.” Then change thesubject. You’ve established confiscation, and pos-session, on rational grounds. One bite at a time.Let them cogitate.

Child Gun Banners MisinformedKids marching for freedom from school massacresdon’t seem to realize that reporters who act likethey love them, flood them with interviews, spendand promote and organize for them—they want totake away guns even if the kids don’t. Or think theydon’t, or say they don’t. That’s why media heap at-tention on you youngsters, and why no one be-lieves you when you say you don’t want to takeaway guns. You either don’t get it at all (makingyou foolish), or you do get it, making you worse.And when you say you only want to ban “assaultweapons,” you haven’t read the bill. It ban’s al-most everything, you didn’t know that, did you.Have to go with ignorant.

Left Wing Getting Wordy AgainThe usual anti-gun-rights suspects, whose namesyou know, funded from familiar dark-moneysources, have invented “velocity ammo,” a new boo-gie man they seek to ban. They have left it unde-fined, very clever, making it easy to includevirtually anything. Near as we can tell, it includesany bullet that moves. Bill of Rights bigots are get-ting real uppity.

Child Marchers Reveal “We studiedthe NRA”The Parkland students got caught up in a mediawhirlwind. With pride, one student brags studentsstudied the NRA, gun control and school shootingsfor weeks, so now they’re really aware. This oneappears totally unaware that typical school educa-tion includes little depth or accuracy. Did they

study crime control (gun control’s smart cousin),or why we’re so heavily armed, the inventors of theworld’s best firearms, government genocide andits precursors, even why deplorables cling somightily? We know they didn’t study the gun-banbills they think they favor. With all the guns, why isAmerica the linchpin of freedom so many foreign-ers seek to emigrate to?

GUNS ARE ABOUT SAFETYYou just don’t see that in the news, do you. At thesame time the left is getting louder about how youdon’t need a gun, the “news” is getting softerabout how, since May 2018, 18,368 convictedcriminal aliens including fugitives and 509 MS-13gang members were caught at our border. Re-porters don’t bring it up, but, no one knows howmany slipped in. They have to go somewhere. Totalillegal entries is in the hundreds of thousands,“down significantly.” Sleep tight.

Concealed Carry Will Stop WorkingA physical attachment and customizable app forsmart phones, now in development and with 8,000pre-orders, will allow anyone who has it to scanyou for concealed weapons from up to 40 feetaway. Royal Holdings Technology Corp. has in-vented SWORD, a 3D mobile imaging scanner,works with high-end Google and Apple phones,and is expected to be deployed in 2019.

The company, based in Los Angeles, makes re-markable claims for the device without revealingmuch in the way of operational details, but expectsit to end privacy for anyone carrying knives,sidearms, explosives or other property of interestto authorities. It isn’t enough that your cell phoneis always on, listening to you, aware of your loca-tion and knows how fast you are moving, but youknew that, right?

2A TAKES A BIG HITAnti-gun-rights ballot initiative I-1639 in Washing-ton State, enacted at the polls, is malum prohibi-tum, making things bad by law, not bad becausethey’re wrong. It makes criminals of people exer-cising their rights, while leaving criminals unat-tended. It’s a bellwether of no good. The bill,which reduces or voids rights people already pos-sess, is headed for the courts.

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The Moyel’s Tips

Moyel, n. the person who performs a circumcision.

“Would it be better for a thousandJews to be saved by a righteous

gentile as in Schindler's List, or formillions of Jews not to need savingbecause they had fought againstthe Nazis like ancient Israelites?”

–J. Neil Schulman“Jews cannot disarm themselves insynagogues or anywhere else for

pacifist or utopian reasons becauseenemies will always seek to extermi-nate them. Even one armed Jewishman or woman in the PittsburghTree of Life synagogue could have

made a positive difference,” said DovMarhoffer, a Holocaust concentra-tion camp survivor and Advisory

Board member of JPFO. He advocatesfor an armed and trained commu-nity for safety. “Jews have no choiceexcept to assume personal responsi-bility for having and using firearmsto protect their own lives, their fami-

lies, and their communities.” What Dov says is true for all people,

regardless of faith.

“When former president Hussein-Obama says,

‘We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,’ he’s not lying. They really aren’t embarrassed!”

–A JPFO member

JPFO’s “Don’t InspireEvil” Initiative

It’s widely known that saturation coverage of massmurderers by “news” media encourages copycatcrimes. The murderers continually tell us this.They seek the publicity and notoriety. Reporters,editors and producers continue to feature andidolize killers, serving several purposes, all evil.

Every publicized killer adds political capital tothe take-everyone’s-gun-away movement. The leftnever misses an opportunity to capitalize on this.“Never let a crisis go to waste,” the media cooper-ates, and they all know it reduces America’s posi-tion as a bastion of freedom.

Glorifying evil is what reporters’ Hollywoodfriends basically prefer, so they go along to getalong, just watch how many films have criminals asthe protagonists. Imagine if Tinseltown didn’t oper-ate from within such a favorable climate.

The media knows it can attract eyeballs by ignor-ing real news, keeping the public safely unin-formed, and unethically featuring sensationalisminstead, to help boost their deteriorating circula-tion. It not only doesn’t work, it debases our cul-ture. Do the honorable thing. Stop glorifyingmurderers. “Refrain from gratuitous or repetitiousportrayal of mass murderers’ names and images.”

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Jesus Knew the Value of StrengthClaiming he was a pacifist is wrong.

by Gregory Hopkins(Editor’s Note: You don’t have to be Jewish tosupport JPFO, you simply must love liberty. Herewe share a self-defense view from across the aisle.)

Some Christians say Jesus was a pacifist. They areeither biblically ignorant, misinformed by theirchurch, politically motivated or they are simplywrong—and some may truly be evil. Jesus said hecame to fulfill the Law and Prophets, not to abolishthem (Matt. 5:17). Therefore, everything G-d saysabout self-defense in the Bible applies for Christians.

G-d blessed Abram for killing the raiders whokidnapped Lot (Gen. 14). The Law allows us to killthe nighttime burglar (Exodus 2:2-3). We are todefend the lives of others (Lev. 19:16; Prov. 24:10-12). David tells us that criminals can only be safelysubdued by armed men (2 Sam. 23:2, 6-7). And G-d Himself has given us the technology to makeweapons to defend ourselves (Is. 54:15-17). Paci-fism has its place, but it is not carved in stone andother places exist.

When Jesus said in Matthew 5:39 “...whoeverslaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the otheralso,” in the context of Matthew 5:21-48, he wasaddressing creating and repairing relationships. Heis not talking about armed robbers or worse. He’stalking about people in our lives with whom it isdifficult to get along.

Jesus uses the Greek word for slap which isrhapezei, meaning a sharp slap to correct an inso-lent servant or child. It’s not an attempt to causephysical injury but rather to insult a person. Jesustells us turn the other cheek because healing andcreating relationships are more important than ourpride. He was not speaking of real attacks, whenyou are supposed to defend yourself. How many

robberies, rapes, or kidnappings must be met withslaps? Not defending yourself from actual harmwould contradict the Hebrew Scriptures, whichJesus said moments before was not his intent.“Turn the other cheek” does not apply to criminalviolence or warfare.

“When a strong man, fully armed,guards his own homestead,

his possessions are undisturbed.”Luke 11:21-22

To Jesus’ audience, home defense was sanc-tioned by G-d and common sense. Jesus describesthe prepared homeowner as not only strong, butarmed and armored as well. Luke 11:21-22:“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his ownhomestead, his possessions are undisturbed. Butwhen someone stronger than he attacks him andoverpowers him, he takes away all his armor inwhich the man trusted and divides up the plunder.”He endorsed having guard towers and walls to pro-tect vineyards (Mathew 12), not “come in and takewhatever you please from us.” When Jesus drovethe moneychangers from the Temple, he demon-strated there are certain times when you must useforce.

The ultimate lesson is that peace and force areboth part of life. To say Jesus was simply a pacifistis to distort the truth, and deny people’s right toprotect themselves, their possessions and theirfamilies.

Gregory Hopkins is the author of “A Time toKill: The Myth of Christian Pacifism,” availableon Amazon.

Americans Are Supposed to Be Armed • Continued from Page 1OK to control you. What should we have, weaponsof surrender?

The colonial British were merciless in theirslaughter of Americans, and ruthless in their sup-pression of us. Black citizens above all should rec-ognize how arms are used against them. Not withkinder gentler exercise of civility, but with hostilebrutality. To face this down, you need weapons ofwar. High powered, fully loaded, great durableguns with abundant ammo. Great guns. Not popguns or small underpowered toothpicks yourmulti-billionaire overlord betters deem accept-able—because they limit your ability to resist theirdiktats. “Just call it a weapon of war,” and some-how that means you can’t have it. But they can.JPFO isn’t buying it. You shouldn’t either.

JPFO resists and rejects every argument made tolimit ethnic and religious groups to bear “civilized”or “approved” weapons only. Going after all citi-zens, which captures ethnic and religious groupsin the net, provides no excuse. It offers no coverfor assaulting ethnic and religious groups—or

anyone—and disarming or subarming them, inany way, under any ratonale. “Officials” gain nocover by disarming Jews, Blacks, Deplorables andsaying it’s OK, because we’re disarming everyone,equally. Face muzzles, tyrants.

If government deems a firearm OK, it is probablysuspect. If the great and powerful Oz of some gun-rights movement agrees with some weapon “al-lowance,” JPFO considers it suspect. What givesany person or group legitimate power to determinewhat we the people cannot keep and bear whengovernment deems it acceptable for them to indi-vidually keep and bear? We are the masters, theyare the servants. When that polarity reverses, free-dom has been compromised, if not extinguished.When an individual, who gets a paycheck from ourtaxes, can carry a firearm we cannot, this definestyranny and violates that “shall not be infringed”clause of the Constitution.

You and we both know criminals and evildoerscan and will obtain and use whatever most power-ful weapons are available, just like “the authori-

ties” do. The only ones affected by “official” limita-tions are we the people, the law abiding, ready tobe sucked in by the dark state, under the thumb ofrule makers, who are armed to the teeth with whatthey deem too dangerous for the rest of us. Theguns are too dangerous alright, too dangerous fortyrants to face, as it should be. They know and de-test this.

Listen up, purveyors of righteousness in the falsename of safety and security. We know you. You arethe face of evil throughout history. Biblically ban-ning blacksmiths so Jews can’t fashion swords (1Samuel 13:19), we’re wise to that. No guns for theIndians, or “those savages” will resist your geno-cide—you played that card. Register here, so weknow who you gun bubbas are—this encouragescrime, it doesn’t fight it. Every game plan, every evilfragment of interference is and has been a formulafor tyrannical control. We see you. We reject it.Thousand-round magazines? No problem—in thehands of the FBI, the CIA—and us. Sleep tight, andbehave.

By Dean WeingartenArmed people and unarmed people see the worlddifferently. Niccolo Machiavelli states it well in ThePrince:

Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; andit is not reasonable that he who is armedshould yield obedience willingly to himwho is unarmed, or that the unarmed manshould be secure among armed servants.Because, there being in the one disdainand in the other suspicion, it is not possiblefor them to work well together.

Our existence is saturated with portrayals of experi-ences, fictional and factual, more than any othertime in history or prehistory. Individuals who havechosen to be unarmed are likely to adopt the men-tality of an unarmed person. Those who have cho-sen to be armed are likely to adopt the role ofarmed people. That’s simple.

The willfully unarmed tend to place themselvesin the role of victim, or deny it could happen tothem. The vast majority of media personalities havechosen to be unarmed. Those who have chosen tobe unarmed vainly assure themselves they will notbe victimized. This denial of potential harm is im-

portant to them. It creates a sense of security. Afalse one, but it’s satisfying for them.

Faced with a threat, they tend to deny the reality,repeatedly telling themselves “this is not happen-ing,” even when it is. Denials and obfuscation con-tinue afterwards, often forever.

People familiar with arms understand the con-cept of self defense. They are more likely to recog-nize a threat and react to it, because they havepracticed reacting to such threats in role playing,training and thought.

People with military or police backgrounds tendto place themselves in the role of armed defender.People who have decided to arm themselves tendto as well, and fight to keep the right to arms.

People who have played games where they arearmed, are more likely to place themselves in therole of armed defender. They have made the mentaljump. Millennials support the Second Amendmentin large numbers. They have played many games asarmed people, especially on interactive screens.

People familiar with arms, watching movies, tele-vision or real-life video, see the action from theirviewpoint as armed people. Their comments are amore informed critique of scenarios, with every-thing from “Why wasn’t that person armed?’ to

“You should not have exposed yourself there,” to“You should have shot sooner.”

People who have chosen to be unarmed createdifferent critiques that help deny the usefulness ofarms, such as “They should never have been in thatsituation,” and “Everyone knows to avoid that partof town,” or “They were in the bear’s backyard,”denying fault or responsibility.

The refusal of the willfully unarmed to take arole of self-reliance explains many attitudes ofthose who desire an unarmed population. Theyproject their own incapacity onto others.

The attitude of the unarmed can be changed withexperience. They resist, but it can be done. Take aperson to the range. It broadens their mental hori-zons. It creates the possibility of their choosing tobecome armed. It dispels myths and fears that lackof knowledge and experience imbeds.

Second Amendment supporters need not arguepolitics, natural law or statistics. Use invitations in-stead. Change the mental set of unarmed people,allowing them to consider the advantages of beingarmed. Take them shooting. Drive, make it easyand pleasant. The experience will be more power-ful than endless words. You can make this differ-ence, and have fun doing it. Don’t wait.

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Unarmed People Are Different

by Frank LeeJPFO has been filing amicus curiae (friend of thecourt) briefs to support challenges to anti-rightslaws and bad judicial decisions.Maryland Shall Issue, Inc. v. Hogan. This chal-

lenges the 2013 Maryland law forbidding the sale,rental, transfer, purchase, or receipt of a handgun byany person without a Handgun Qualification License(HQL) issued by state government. The HQL re-quirement conflicts directly with the precedents setin the U.S. Supreme Court cases D.C. v. Heller andMcDonald v. Chicago, both of which held that citi-zens have a Second Amendment right to possess afirearm in the home. Maryland’s law forbids peace-ful law-abiding citizens from possessing a handgunat home unless they first spend over a month com-plying with various licensing scheme requirements.

Sidearm ownership confers the power to imme-diately respond to an incoming threat. The lengthyHQL requirements deter ownership and certainlyslow down a citizen’s response to violence when itcomes knocking. People recognize this truth: “Whenseconds count, the police are just minutes away.”

JPFO’s federal appeals court amicus brief pro-vides in-depth historical and legal analysis thatadds to what the other parties’ briefs have offered.We document that when the Second Amendmentwas enacted, there were absolutely no HQL laws

that “preconditioned firearm ownership on train-ing.” To the contrary, many state laws “requiredcertain persons to possess arms,” implicitly ex-pecting people to know how to use them. JPFOunswervingly supports firearms training. But as alegal prerequisite or requirement to exercise gunrights, training is flatly unconstitutional and imper-missible. It is no more reasonable than a mandateto understand politics in order to vote, or an edu-cation requirement to buy books.

JPFO has also joined Worman v. Healey, chal-lenging a Massachusetts statute that prohibits own-ership of so-called “assault weapons.” The statutedefines these to include the most popular semi-au-tomatic rifles in the country, as well as “copies orduplicates” of them.

JPFO signed on to support the amicus brief thatpoints out how the Massachusetts law classifies thecommon semi-automatic firearms used by police of-ficers as “dangerous and unusual” weapons of war.It is hard to imagine why it is good to alienate com-munities from their local police officers by viewingpolice as combat warriors instead of peace officers.

Massachusetts argues semi-automatic firearmsare not “necessary” for self-defense and so couldbe banned outright. Our brief shows, however, thatconstitutional protection of firearms ownership“does not depend on the number of times people

need to shoot guns in self-defense,” or on whatgovernment thinks people ought to use for self-de-fense. Rather, as the brief explains, the SecondAmendment protects categories of guns especiallywhen people commonly select them for self-de-fense and other lawful purposes. And semi-auto-matic rifles and sidearms are extremely commonlyowned and used for lawful purposes. The Massa-chusetts statute should be held unconstitutional.

We continue to look for opportunities to assist inprincipled defense of the right to keep and beararms through support of selected legal actions.Oliver Wendell Holmes was right about this: "If aman neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot com-plain if, after a while, the law follows his example.”JPFO strives ever to protect the G-d given right toself-defense using firearms. If this is important toyou, consider donating to our efforts at JPFO.org.

JPFO COURT BRIEFSWe’re Working the Federal Courts

“The republicans strengthening in the senate gives them control of the senate fortwo years, and retains their control of thejudiciary for perhaps longer. The democ-rat narrow win in the house can be over-turned in 2020, they can and will stop

any and all useful legislation until then.” –Grover Norquist

by Yehuda RemerFormer President Ronald Reagan famously said,“Freedom is never more than one generation awayfrom extinction.” While many members of both par-ties claim to be defenders of the Second Amend-ment, we all know these so-called patriots knowvery little about the mechanics of firearms or of theSecond Amendment.Truthfully, many of themstill believe “AR” standsfor Assault or AutomaticRifle when even my nine-year-old son knows that ARstands for Awesome Rifle.

As a Second Amendmentadvocate whose main focusis firearms education for chil-dren, I believe the future ofour country begins with ouryoungsters. The best way toprepare them is to teach thema healthy respect for firearms,and that begins with gun safety.This is why I wrote my book Safety On: An Introduction to the World ofFirearms for Children. My books were designed asa tool for parents to talk to their kids about gunsafety in a fun and interesting way. They are bristlingwith artwork that keeps a child’s attention focused.

Teaching your kids proper gun safety is alwaysthe first step—always. Where anti-rights advocatesprefer avoidance and ignorance, gun-rights sup-porters take the high road—education and infor-mation. Teach them to shoot properly. Teach themthe mechanics of firearms. Teach them the impor-tance of the Second Amendment in an age-appro-priate way. Teach them about the Constitution,which they may not be getting in their schools.Teach them that they have a responsibility from G-dto defend themselves and their loved ones and thatabove all else, teach them not to take their rights to

keep arms and their rights to bear arms forgranted. These rights are special and important.Teach them to never give up their rights.

I have witnessed and truly believe that advancingthe pro-rights message must start with our kids.They are the future. The political left and right both

know and frequently saythe children are our fu-ture, and they’re 100%right. Our quintessentialAmerican right to arms isan irrevocable part ofthat, and unless weteach it and reinforce it,it may not prevail. Thisis a crucial role of yourjob as a parent.

As Founding Fatherand signer of the Dec-laration of Independ-ence Richard HenryLee famously said,

“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it isessential that the whole body of the people alwayspossess arms, and be taught alike, especially whenyoung, how to use them.” In keeping with his wis-dom, and how that truth has kept America a shin-ing beacon of freedom for centuries, I created mypicture books for your youngsters—and my own.

Yehuda Remer is the author of the Safety Onseries, and owns and operates the website Thepewpewjew.com. You can follow him onTwitter and Instagram @Thepewpewjew.

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SAVE OUR CHILDRENEducation Has Always Been a Key

his activism is for preserving the right of Americansto keep and bear arms, not about getting awards orbeing on a popularity tour. Students from his andother schools have accepted financing and accoladeto join so-called “Never Again” tours and publicitycampaigns. JPFO Advisor Dov Marhoffer, a survivorof the Nazi Holocaust, has rebuked that movementin the strongest terms for attempting to redefine aunique Jewish battle cry to arms in a political effortto incrementally disarm innocent Americans.

At the podium, Kashuv said, “The solution toschool safety is not the erosion of the SecondAmendment.” He cautioned the firearm-rightscommunity, “Defense isn’t enough. We must go on

the offense.” He was honored with a standing ova-tion from the 800 people attending. More than115,000 people watched the conference online.

The David and Goliath Award was created in2012 by Jews for the Preservation of FirearmsOwnership. Past recipients have included the inves-tigative reporters who broke the Fast and Furiousscandal (David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh),the Washington Times columnist who documentedWashington, D.C.’s reluctance to obey its own gunlaws (Emily Miller), and the author and attorneywho linked Nazi gun confiscations directly to theHolocaust (Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D.). A reviewof potential new recipients is actively underway.

The award is issued periodically by JPFO to recognize heroic achievement by an individual orgroup, against significant adversity, in the preserva-tion of firearms ownership and the civil libertiesnecessary for attaining this goal. Successful candi-dates have persevered through outstanding activity,setting an example for others to admire or emulate.

The JPFO David and Goliath Award trophy fea-tures a laser-engraved 3D image of the biblicalhero David, with his weapon of choice, a sling,prominent inside a block of glass crystal. Thestatute renders David as sculpted by the Renais-sance genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1627, underlicense to JPFO.

In accepting the award, Mr. Kashuv emphasized

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Hating Jews is the way of the world. Stop pre-tending any particular Jew-hating incident isspecial or different. Since Biblical times, hat-ing Jews is what goes on. Dozens of nationshave set this as their policy. Exterminating Jewsis openly featured in some cultures, and youknow who we’re talking about, don’t make-be-lieve you don’t.

These people make maps of the world thatomit Israel. For a shocker, try searching onlinefor the “Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest” (yes,there is such a thing!), you'll have a hard timebelieving what you see. Our so-called “news”media hides this from you, along with the de-struction of western culture now taking placeacross Europe.

The United Nations Human Rights Councilaccepts anti-Semitism (except for lip service)and practically promotes it, with genocide advocates holding seats on the council. Theyshould be embarrassed and humiliated by this,they are neither, this tells you something. Peo-ple who still believe the U.N. is some bastion offreedom and righteousness, instead of a U.S.–hating counterproductive force, should get andread JPFO’s Gran’Pa Jack booklet number 5,“United Nations Is Killing Your Freedoms!”In fact, get all the Gran’Pa Jack booklets, youand your family will be pleasantly stunned.Discard your blinders and emperor’s robes.And get armed. The anti-Semites are.

by Aaron Zelman and JPFO StaffAaron’s trusted close associate Kirby Ferris con-ducted this interview with him in 2009. It ringsas true today as the day the words were spoken.

KIRBY: Socially speaking, what is your originalbackground with firearms?

AARON: I was raised in Tucson, Arizona, where,I like to say, there were more guns than cactuses.Like most rural youths, I fired a .22 when I was tenor twelve. Ironically this was at a Jewish day campin Tucson! I seriously doubt this would be happen-ing today, because liberal Judaism has become sowidespread. I bought my first guns via mail order.

Obviously, today’s America isn’t what I grew upwith. Many in Arizona’s Jewish community were an-cestors of pioneers who came to the Southwest incovered wagons. In nearly every photo of the de-scendants in the book We Were There the pioneerJews are armed. Many of these Jews came fromEastern Europe or Russia and were probably verygrateful to finally be on the right end of a gun.

KIRBY: When did you first suspect Americanpoliticians and cultural leaders were beginning tosubvert the intent of the Second Amendment?

AARON: When the Gun Control Act of 1968(GCA ’68) passed. How could such an ill-con-ceived, draconian collection of anti-American lawsbe instituted in a nation founded upon the ideal ofan armed citizenry?

KIRBY: So, some 20 years later, in 1989, you de-cided to form Jews for the Preservation of FirearmsOwnership. Why even say “Jews”? Why not “Ameri-cans for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership”?

AARON: An unsettling transformation had takenplace in the ranks of “gun control” advocates. GCA’68 was the brainchild of Thomas Dodd, who wasnot Jewish. The political and emotional advocatesof GCA ’68, like Lyndon Johnson, Ramsey Clark, theKennedy family, Jesse Jackson and the MartinLuther King family, were not Jewish. But then,somewhere during the expansion of “gun control”in America, liberal Jewish politicians and spokes-men became a disturbingly large percentage of thehigh-profile gun prohibitionists. The myopically ar-rogant viewpoints of Charles Schumer and HowardMetzenbaum began to seriously alarm me.

KIRBY: In conversations over the years, when Imention JPFO by its full name, people are a bit star-tled, but then so many of them say: “Well, thatmakes sense, seeing what Jews have historicallybeen through.”

AARON: That non-Jews seem to comprehendthat in greater percentages than Jews continues todisturb and disappoint me, considering that Jewsare commanded to choose self defense. The Jewishreligion teaches the absolute responsibility of selfdefense and the defense of the helpless. I can nolonger refer to Jewish gun prohibitionists as inno-cently misguided, because JPFO has constantly pro-vided them with common-sense reasoning and thelessons of history. I now understand that many ofthem must be latently suicidal and, in many cases,emotionally unstable. They don’t trust themselves(because of their repressed anger against human-ity) to possess a firearm, and therefore don’t trustothers who do own guns.

As for someone like Charles Schumer, DianneFeinstein, or Rahm Emanuel? There simply seemsto be an evil, authoritarian essence runningthrough their core.

KIRBY: JPFO came on the scene quite aggres-sively. Your first ad read: “Not all Jews are stupidor pro criminal, but Charles Schumer is both.”

AARON: But no one has ever stepped forward tointelligently debate us. JPFO is a solution-orientedorganization. We reveal the issues, often times withirrefutable historical evidence, and then we offerhard hitting “intellectual ammunition” to combatthese well orchestrated and deadly incursions onour liberties.

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T H EWayback MachineKeeping JPFO Founder Aaron Zelman’s Spirit Alive

“Liberal Jewish politicians andspokesmen became a disturbinglylarge percentage of the high-profile gun prohibitionists.”

“Jewish gun prohibitionists don’t trust themselves (because oftheir repressed anger against

humanity) to possess a firearm,and therefore don’t trust others

who do own guns.”