I’m often stunned by what it takes to get some people to open their eyes and decide they need to provide for their own defense.<\/p>\n
S. Florida Jewish Community Arming Up After Hamas Attack in Israel<\/a><\/p>\n The Hamas attack in Israel has set of alarms within the Jewish community in southern Florida, according to\u00a0WPLG News<\/a>, and many people in that community are buying guns and signing up for training courses.<\/strong><\/p>\n Concerns may not be lessened by President Joe Biden\u2019s trip to Israel or his\u00a0planned speech<\/a>\u00a0to the nation Thursday evening.<\/p>\n The report reinforces an article in\u00a0AmmoLand News<\/a>, which focused on the fact that U.S. citizens might provide an obstacle to such terrorism in this country because the Second Amendment protects their right to be armed. There is no such right in Israel, and some leading advocates want gun regulations relaxed.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0quotes firearms retailer David Kowalsky who notes many of his new clients are \u201cIsraeli and Orthodox Jews.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJust wanting to be trained to protect their families and have a firearm at home or on their person,\u201d he said. \u201cSince last Saturday we have seen a tremendous public display of how prevalent anti-Semitism is and hate speech and how they want to rid the world of Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n That appears to be true, as demonstrations around the U.S. sympathetic to Palestinians, and critical of Israeli counterattacks in Gaza, have been reported.<\/p>\n According to the WPLG report, \u201cDozens of South Florida gun shops and shooting ranges are seeing a spike in gun sales and a desire to train since Israel was ambushed by Hamas terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the weekend, FBI Director Christopher Wray was \u201cominously warning there is a rising number of terror threats against the US \u2014 and that the biggest concern involves potential lone wolves,\u201d according to a story in the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n WPLG quoted a Jewish woman identified as Endi Tennenhaus, who said \u201cmost of the men in her synagogue\u201d were in the process of arming themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cWe said, \u2018What about the women?\u2019 We need to do the things we need to do to prepare,\u201d Tennenhaus told a reporter. \u201cTo stay safe and to be able to use a gun, God forbid if we ever should need one.\u201d<\/p>\n The report noted many Jewish women had been buying guns, as well as men, and the women were taking firearms training.<\/p>\n Kowalsky\u2019s gun store is providing additional classes to meet the demand.<\/p>\n Florida is one of the 27 states where permitless carry is now legal. But the Jewish community appears strongly interested in the kind of training that goes beyond mere safety in the home.<\/p>\n In Israel, when Hamas terrorists attacked starting with a music festival\u2014killing hundreds of people in the process\u2014nobody was armed. In southern Florida, it is evident members of the Jewish community will not allow that to happen here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m often stunned by what it takes to get some people to open their eyes and decide they need to provide for their own defense. S. Florida Jewish Community Arming Up After Hamas Attack in Israel The Hamas attack in Israel has set of alarms within the Jewish community in southern Florida, according to\u00a0WPLG News, … 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-96923","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\/96923","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=96923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96924,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96923\/revisions\/96924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}