{"id":94316,"date":"2023-07-11T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94316"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:37:00","slug":"94316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94316","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Jewish camp leaders challenge carry law due to anti-semitism.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re part of a group that may well be targeted by someone simply because you\u2019re part of that group, it\u2019s probably a good idea to take steps to protect yourself.<\/p>\n

Anti-semitism, homophobia, racism, and so many other forms of hatred are, unfortunately, real and if you\u2019re someone who is concerned about any of those, it makes sense to arm yourself and to carry a firearm everywhere you can.<\/p>\n

In New York, though, the people who run a camp for Jewish kids are challenging the state\u2019s carry laws because it\u00a0makes it impossible for them to protect the kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CEO of Kars4Kids, a Jewish charity with a catchy advertising jingle, is challenging New York state\u2019s concealed carry law in court \u2014 claiming that it leaves children vulnerable to antisemitic attacks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eliohu Mintz, who heads Kars4Kids, is also the CEO of Oorah, a Jewish outreach nonprofit funded by Kars4Kids that runs a summer camp in upstate New York. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, Mintz and a camp administrator, Eric Schwartz, say the law exposes the camp to antisemitic attack because it bans private citizens from carrying guns in places where religious activities are conducted.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe violent attacks on Jewish people targeting places of worship and places where children are \u2014 the most vulnerable of the population \u2014 are random and provide the victims with no notice or advance warning,\u201d Mintz said in a declaration attached to the lawsuit. \u201cI cannot be left unprepared and unarmed in the event that an evildoer decides to attack one or both of the [camp\u2019s] campuses nor can the other licensed staff members.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, there\u2019s a provision that amended the law in question that allows for armed security personnel at places of worship.\u00a0The problem?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plaintiffs are staffers who have carried for personal protection and want to continue carrying,\u201d Amy Bellatoni, the attorney for Mintz and Schwartz, told the\u00a0Jewish Telegraphic Agency.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cThey are not designated security personnel and, therefore, not part of the exemption.\u201d<\/p>\n

And therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I side with Mintz and Schwartz here. The carry law was written to include as much of the state of New York as possible and removes any possibility of a so-called sensitive location to decide for itself whether it allows firearms or not.\u00a0New York decided and a lot of people are paying the price.<\/p>\n

And anti-semitism is very real and isn\u2019t likely to go away. Those who want to harm Jews aren\u2019t going to be deterred by the idea that these places of worship are gun-free zones, either. I mean, if the laws against murder aren\u2019t going to deter them, a Ghostbuster-like side with a gun in the center instead isn\u2019t likely to do anything either.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s my heartfelt desire to see this change. The people of New York deserve better than they\u2019re getting from their so-called leadership. Concerns of racism or anti-semitism or anything else like that should be taken seriously and people should be empowered by the constitutionally protected rights granted them by being human beings to combat them, with words when appropriate and with bullets when their lives are threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jewish camp leaders challenge carry law due to anti-semitism. If you\u2019re part of a group that may well be targeted by someone simply because you\u2019re part of that group, it\u2019s probably a good idea to take steps to protect yourself. Anti-semitism, homophobia, racism, and so many other forms of hatred are, unfortunately, real and if … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94317,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94316\/revisions\/94317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}