The last thing that anyone should have to deal with is violent attacks, or even the threat of violence, because of their ethnicity.
Your DNA shouldn’t make you a target for attack.
People should be allowed to live in peace here in the U.S., regardless of who they are, as long as they aren’t harming or threatening to harm anyone else.
Unfortunately, though, there are some people who are specifically targeted because of their ethnicity even when they haven’t done a single thing to harm the attacker. It’s absolutely unacceptable.
And that’s exactly why one particular ethnic group’s rate of gun ownership here in the U.S. has risen sharply. They’re buying guns to defend themselves from further violent attacks (there have, sadly, already been a number of such attacks). Allan Stein writes,
California firearms instructor Alex Dovegalvesky remembers the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in southern Israel as the day his phone rang nonstop.
“I got more phone calls than I did in my entire life,” Dovegalevsky told The Epoch Times.
Members of Southern California’s Jewish community wanted to know how to get a firearms permit or a handgun for self defense.
For many, it would be a first-time purchase. Others wanted to join Dovegalevsky’s gun club, Guns N’ Moses, in San Diego to learn to shoot proficiently.
“Nobody wants to become a victim,” Dovegalevsky said. “Everybody understands that when somebody comes at you, you need more than goodwill to survive it.”
Dovegalevsky described the surge in interest as inevitable after such a tragedy, sparking a wave of Jewish gun ownership and gun club participation in the months that followed.
And let’s be clear, it’s good that this community has taken to firearm ownership. After all, when seconds matter, the police are minutes away.
(No disrespect intended to law enforcement. They simply can’t be everywhere all at the same time.)
If these Jewish people don’t take steps to protect themselves from those who want to hurt them simply for being Jewish, they allow themselves to be sitting ducks for attackers to go after.
And no one should have to be in that situation. Everyone should have the opportunity to defend themselves.
