Responding to the suggestion that Brasco the heavily-armed, pants-free, bespectacled Jewish Liberty Bear ™ might be packin’ his Hebrew hardware just for sport, BoingBoing reader Morgan Foust says:
“It’s a pretty common misconception that most rabid gun owners own guns for hunting. They often don’t (and I would know, I come from a family of gun-totin’ survivalists). They own guns for self-defense at the very least, although more of them then you suspect honestly believe that the Democrats and the UN are plotting to take over the US with a 1984-style conspiracy and freedom’s only hope are going to be gun-lovin’ Americans fighting back, just like 1776 all over again. There’s actually a Jewish explanation for this. Some Jews who own guns like to point to the Biblical/Tanakh Book of Esther, in which the Jewish population in Persia circa 450 or so BC arm themselves and repel an army led by a genocidal vizier. There are several verses describing the Jews kicking ass: ‘And the Jews smote all their enemies with slaughter and destruction,’ or ‘the Jews slew five hundred men’.”
And reader Cameron spotted another ammolicious goodie in the JFPO store: “They sell a one-of-a-kind pistol with the Bill of Rights on it… for the Jewish Dirty Harry types, I guess. What takes the cake: the $4,000 semiautomatic being sold to support the JPFO documentary film.” Link.
