by Tragedies can bring out the best and worst in people. I won’t go into the worst because it is all too common. However, the best can be there. Following the attack on the LGBTQ community in the Pulse Nightclub massacre, the firearms community stepped up to offer firearms instruction and familiarization to those in the LGBTQ community. It became what is now Operation Blazing Sword.
Our guest on the Polite Society Podcast this week was the Pew Pew Jew, Yehuda Remer. You can listen to his interview here starting at about the 8:40 mark. One of the things that Yehuda is doing in the aftermath of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is to offer both training and advice to those in the Jewish community who are thinking it is time to consider being armed. After our interview with him, Yehuda was hosting a Zoom call with 18 participants to give them advice on what to consider when searching for their first firearm.
Yehuda’s outreach got me to thinking. Why can’t the rest of us in the gun culture, Jew or Gentile, step up and do the same for our friends and neighbors in the Jewish community?
Since the name Operation Blazing Sword is already taken, I would propose something like Operation Gideon’s Trumpet. I am far from a biblical scholar so if you can find a better example from the Old Testament, go for it.
So reach out to your Jewish friends, work colleagues, neighbors, etc. and make the offer. You don’t have to be pushy about it. You could just say If they just want to know more about becoming armed you would be happy to help. It could start out with just going with them on a visit to a gun store. Alternatively, you could take them to them range and let them shoot your guns and ammo.
I don’t know if this will go anywhere but we will never know if we don’t try.