A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense
The ‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms and concerns about ripple effects
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Fires Back At ‘Stay In Your Lane’ NRA In Feud Over Gun Deaths
A Jewish doctor’s politically charged tweet went viral after she responded to the National Rifle Association’s statement that doctors should “stay in their lane” when it comes to speaking out in favor of gun control, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. “Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This…
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Fast Forward NRA Returns To Anti-Soros Dog Whistles Just Days After Pittsburgh
Days after 11 were killed in a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue, identified as a hate crime, the National Rifle Association returned to its dog-whistling tactics that many consider to be anti-Semitic. The NRA’s official Twitter account wrote, posted an NBC article speculating that Jewish megadonor George Soros will spend more money on the…
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Fast Forward NRA Seizes On Schneiderman Abuse Allegations To Push For Female Gun Ownership
After multiple reports of physical abuse came out against former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the National Rifle Association used the details to push its agenda, claiming that the solution to violence against women is more gun ownership. A May 7 New Yorker article reported that four women say Schneiderman repeatedly hit them, often…
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Community Machine Guns And A Minyan At The NRA
The 2018 NRA Annual Meeting, held May 4 through 6, featured a full 15 acres of firearms, shooting and hunting equipment — and a minyan. “I’m on my way back from Dallas where I took part in the NRA annual meetings — there was a nice crowd of fellow Jews,” Jonathan Burstyn of Chi-Defense, which…
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Art Anish Kapoor Calls Out the NRA For Using His Sculpture in a Political Ad
Anish Kapoor, a renowned sculptor of Indian-Jewish descent who won last year’s Genesis Prize, viciously denounced the National Rifle Association nearly a year after the organization used footage of his iconic Cloud Gate sculpture in a now-infamous political advertisement. According to the Washington Post, the sculpture appears briefly on screen in last year’s “clenched fist…
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Opinion The NRA Has An Anti-Semitism Problem
Purim is right around the corner. It’s the holiday in which we commemorate a crazy, long-ago time when wealthy Jews were targeted by anti-Semites, and a vain, know-nothing ruler did nothing to stop it. Sorry, that’s this past week. First, of course, came the horrific mass-murder of 17 people, 14 of them students and five…
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Fast Forward NRA Chief Singles Out Jewish Billionaires In ‘Socialism’ Rant
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, told a conservative conference that three Jewish liberal philanthropists were funding a socialist takeover of the United States. “Every time in every nation in which this political disease rises to power,” LaPierre told the CPAC conference on Thursday, describing socialism, “its…
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