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CNN decided to further their gun control narrative using the opinion of an American Jewish expatriate in Germany, and it is one of the worst things I have ever read.

Halle survivor: Gun control saved my life

Of course, CNN would publish this.

And let me guess, this is going to be like every article about Right-Wing terrorism written by someone on the Left that starts with “Since 9/11…” because they can fudge the numbers in the direction they want once they leave those 3,000 American deaths off the body count.

The author is going to explain how gun control in Germany is ackchyually good for the Jews, once she ignores the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews in East Germany under the Soviets, and her timeline begins on August 30, 1990.

I decided to visit Halle, Germany, shortly after moving to Berlin. I am one of a growing number of Jewish expats in Berlin, excited by the cultural outlets of the city, the cheaper rents and the diverse and open-minded Jewish life. Two weeks ago, an opportunity arose to visit a small, Russian-speaking Jewish community from the former USSR living in Halle to spend Yom Kippur with them. Our delegation was supposed to bring life and song to one of the most important days on the Jewish calendar.

What the fuck is she talking about?  What “diverse and open-minded Jewish life” is she finding in Germany?  German Jews are fleeing the country for Israel saying there is “no future for Jews in Germany” because of the rising number of attacks on Jews.  She’s going to ignore the whole history of Jews in Europe before last week

We had just begun the Torah portion Wednesday when we heard the first explosion. My eyes moved from holy words to unholy smoke billowing in the courtyard. My instincts, conditioned by Parkland, Pittsburgh and Poway, forced me under the pew, before my brain understood what had sent me there.

My eyes fastened on another American, also in lockdown posture. I knew she was thinking what I was: another synagogue massacre. We were living what has become a distinctly American nightmare, only we were thousands of miles away.

Again, what the fuck is she talking about?  She must be very specifically talking about synagogue shootings because Synagogues across Europe are being firebombed, especially in France.  In Sweden, the culturally enriching migrant population enjoys throwing grenades smuggled in from the Middle East at Jews.

And don’t get me started on all the stabbings of Jews in Europe.

I guess she’s only worried about getting shot in Synagogue, not stabbed, blown up, or burned alive.

The cantor then translated what he had seen: A gray van and a man suiting up in full protective gear. Homemade explosives thrown over the wall. The man holding a gun. A Good Samaritan shot. His inability to get through the door. The guns jamming. The explosives failing.

While the courtyard walls and door held strong under his attack, it is Germany’s restrictive gun measures that saved us.

Our attacker had a limited arsenal of self-built explosives and submachine guns. While he may have used these self-styled weapons in an attempt to prove their efficacy, it is also quite possible it was because he had no legal access to anything better.

That last sentence has to be the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever read.

This is from an article from Vox:

This week a German regional court ruled that the 2014 firebombing of a synagogue in Wuppertal, a region just east of Düsseldorf, was an act of criminal arson, but not anti-Semitic. Instead, the court found it was a protest against Israel, even though the synagogue was obviously not in Israel and those who worship there are Jews, not Israelis.

The decision upheld that of a lower court, which stated the perpetrators, a trio of Palestinian-born German residents, wanted to “call attention to the Gaza conflict” when they prepared and then lobbed Molotov cocktails at the synagogue one July night in 2014.

The Far-Right asshole who tried to kill Jews on Yom Kippur wasn’t hindered by Germany’s gun laws as much as his own incompetence.  Muslims in Germany don’t build complex contraptions, they fill glass bottles with gasoline.

In France and England, they also use drain cleaner, battery acid, and knives.

Back to CNN:

In Germany, gun ownership requires training, an application and psychiatric evaluation. Every three years gun owners are subject to a re-evaluation of their capacity to own a firearm, and assault weapons of any kind are not available for purchase.

I didn’t know any of this while I waited in that hallway. No one told me Halle would not be remembered on a list of synagogues massacres only because the terrorist lacked access to weapons capable of mass murder. If there were ever a clear encapsulation of why gun control is the only effective measure against mass shootings, it would be Halle. Please remember it.

This is the gun control blind spot 101, ONLY think about deaths from gun violence and nothing else.

Gun control may, emphasis on ‘may’, have worked this time, but violent attacks on Jews is increasing in Europe and the Jews have been rendered defenseless.

The evacuation had been spurred by a second murder, inside a nearby döner (kebab) shop. At that time the police believed it had been a coordinated attack; we later learned it was the same gunman who had attacked us, with antisemitism at the synagogue and Islamophobia at the döner shop.

Even in the chaos of evacuation, I understood that the attack was more than antisemitism, that in white supremacist language, Jew is code for all minorities and conspiracy theories. Using language like “antisemitism” to condemn the gunman’s motivations is too narrow. Merely to tighten security around synagogues in response is too isolationary, and misses the lesson of Halle.

If we are to build walls around synagogues, we should also build bonds with our neighbors.

Therefore, I stand with communities of color, migrant communities, feminist alliances, Muslims and fellow Jews. I fight for better gun control. And I name and condemn the larger forces of white supremacism – of which antisemitism is certainly one – that animated the acts in Halle.

I really hope for her sake, that when she is attacked and raped by a bunch of Muslims “protesting Israel,” they are gentle with her.

This girl is so far off in La-La-Land with her Leftist ideology she is a danger to herself and others.

This is no Muslim-Jewish alliance in Europe, the Muslims are attacking the Jews across the continent.

Here are a few articles from The Times of Israel on this topic:

At massive UK PalExpo, they’ll play BDS bowling, learn to ‘decolonize Palestine’

Anti-Semitic attacks in Europe in recent years
A unifying thread links the terrorists who’ve targeted Europe’s Jews

National Review also has a great article on this:

Don’t Blame the Surge of European Anti-Semitism on the Populists

Is the re-rise of Right-Wing antisemitism a problem in Europe?  Yes.

That is one danger, but it is a danger compounded by the Leftist ideologues who use it to ignore antisemitic Islamist violence.

The previous attack on a Synagogue in Germany was a Muslim man wielding a knife yelling “Allah Akbar.”  If you remember that correctly, he was not arrested for what he did and if the aforementioned arson case is precedent, all he would have had to say was that he was trying to stab Jews to protest Israel, and the German courts would have let him walk.

This attacker was a bumbling idiot.  It wasn’t gun control but his own incompetence that kept his attack on the Synagogue from being a bloodbath.

German (really all of Europe, except for the Czech Republic) gun control means that Jews in Europe are unable to defend themselves and must rely on police who really don’t care about protecting Jews.

The British police who protect Synagogues are not allowed to carry guns so are notorious for doing little more than blowing a whistle while Jews get beaten in London.

I’d rather have the ability to defend myself, and if the Knife Intifada proved anything, it is that concealed carry is a very effective tool against being murdered by a Jew-hating terrorist.

This girl, who is clearly a worshiper in the Synagogue of Progressivism, and CNN really don’t care about Jews who are stabbed, beaten, burned to death, or killed with hand grenades, just as long as they are not shot that is all that matters, because it’s not about saving innocent lives, it’s about pushing gun control.

The Liberals are having the vapors while pearl-clutching about this video:

Crass? I suppose some delicate angels would think so, but not anymore than the original scene from Kingsman: The secret Service.

And, of course we need to hear condemnation from the untouchable (in Liberal’s minds) Widow Cindy McCain:

But Antifa truly using violence, arson and intimidation apparently does not raise to a violation to the “norms of our society” and in many cases they are applauded.

Let me repeat it once again:

Dear Liberals, you have not seen us violent. If we were really behaving violently, you’d be tweeting your outrage from a refugee camp in Vancouver or Tijuana.

UPDATE: Via Clayton Cramer. Videos of Trump supporters being attacked at the rally last Thursday night in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Watch: Video That Shows How Unhinged The Left Has Become.

The latest is the case of 84 year old Stephen Nichols (Korean vet, former cop and now a school crossing guard) where a waitress overhead something, took it out of context and ended up with cops going to his place, seize his guns and his license to carry, a license he has had since 1958 without a blemish apparently.

Then we have cases down here in Florida where a 91 year old man was Red Flagged for also making a comment about “even the score” with his late wife (yes, she was already dead) and an 8 year old who threw a hissy fit at school, ran his mouth and threatened to shoot everybody.

No mistake these are things that should have never happened. This willful abuse of half the Bill of Rights is precisely what the Red Flags wanted to achieve. At the same time, it is providing to be the biggest ammunition to destroy the stupid laws. Either taken to court or to the legislatures to shame the state congresscritters into rewriting the laws so they can actually be useful (in the case of Florida, to revert back to the damned good law we had prior to the Parkland Shooting) and come up with an alternative that protects both individual rights and the safety of the people from truly dangerous individuals.

And the bulk of ammunition will be provided by California after its governor just signed into law a new version of Red Flag which allows almost anybody with a grudge to have you legally SWATted.  Double the “joy” if the swatted individual does not own guns. You sew, most people believe that only gun owners will be targeted and that they are not gonna have to suffer from  having their homes raided by cops. It is gonna be an awfully nasty surprise when they figure out that a tool of abuse will be equally used against the populace regardless of the propaganda they gave you to so they could get your support.

This is not a silver lining post, this is more like “If Life gives you lemons, stab it the gut  and shove lemon pieces into the open wound till it develops peritonitis.”

You may have heard the case of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, who was killed by a Forth Worth police officer in her house.  From the looks of it, this is a bad shooting and FWPD also played a dick move which makes me believe they k now so..

A Fort Worth police officer shot and killed a woman inside her own home early Saturday while responding to a call, officials said.
Officers responded to an “open structure” call around 2:25 a.m. near the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue, east of Interstate 35W, Fort Worth police said.
Body-camera footage shows the officer standing outside the front door of the home before walking around the side of the house and opening a gate to the backyard. The officer was in the backyard when he turned toward the window and shouted.
“Put your hands up. Show me your hands!” the officer yelled before firing once through the window, the bodycam footage shows.

Fort Worth police officer kills woman inside her own home, officials say

Here is the video

The officer never identified himself as one. He opens his mouth screaming and shoots immediately. Then at the end of the video, FWPD shows 2 still photos, blurred for the post part showing a pistol. So what if the person inside had a gun? The Officer walked around the outside of the house without identifying himself at 2:30 in the morning. His actions fits more the behavior of a prowler than a police officer doing a welfare check.  Anyone of us would have had the heavy artillery out also.  Showing the gun without zero context is a way to try and predispose the public into an acceptance of, if not a good shooting (that never exist for anybody) or at least a tragic accidental shooting rather than reckless disregard.

Forth Worth PD should rightfully take one in keister, if for nothing more than cheap attempts at manipulation.

I will admit the price is a steal.

And then, the heavy dose of paranoia kicks in…

I am all for Brest Cancer awareness,but it comes moment where you need to start putting your foot down about being a portable banner. What we have here looks like bunch of tactical flamingos who do not inspire much confidence.

I’ve been there once or twice.