Colorado gun dealer offers local rabbis free AR-15 rifle

A gun dealer in Colorado Springs, Colo., has offered a free AR-15 rifle to local temples for protection following the mass killing of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue by an anti-Semitic gunman.

Good for him.

Mel Bernstein, owner of Dragon Arms, told Fox News on Sunday that four local rabbis in Colorado Springs took him up on his offer and a fifth accepted the offer of a handgun.

Something inside me thinks that Mel Bernstein is Jewish.

Also, wonderful, that’s five synagogues, that after a little training, will be safer.

“I feel very bad that someone can walk in to a synagogue or church and start shooting and they can’t protect themselves,” Bernstein said.

That’s a nearly universal feeling in the gun community.

He said each rabbi filled out a background check.

Imagine that, everybody is obeying the law too.

“I don’t really like what’s going on in the country and I’m offering them a free AR-15 rifle with two magazines and hundred bullets,” he told the station.

*In my best Mel Brooks/Jew from Brooklyn accent* That’s a hell of a deal!

The station reported interviewing the president of one local synagogue about Bernstein’s offer.

“I think he wants to help and is very well-intentioned,” Jeff Ader of Temple Beit Torah said. “It just isn’t for us.”

He said the AR-15 was, in a sense, a “weapon of mass destruction.”

Oh FFS.

“If it can fire multiple rounds per second, anything can happen and my fear is that innocent bystanders get in the way and innocent people get hurt,” he said.

That’s why you get training.

The station reported that Ader was in talks with Bernstein over choosing a handgun instead.

On one hand, a rifle is more accurate and controllable than a handgun, and both being semi-auto, the rate of fire is the same.  I’d rather have a rifle at at gunfight, given the choice.

On the other hand, a handgun is better than nothing and in many cases a handgun is the gateway drug to bigger and better things.  This Rabbi has swallowed a lot of anti-gun bullshit, and there are some myths in his head the need to be dispelled, but he has taken the first step and I applaud that.

Scott Levin of the Colorado Anti-Defamation League told the station that a rabbi with a gun causes image issues. He said he felt it would be a disruption.

Fuck the ADL, those Lefty Bagel-Bolshevik Jews.  The ADL never found a Left Wing anti-Semite they couldn’t treat with kid gloves.

I’ll take the image of a Rabbi with a gun over the image of another Synagogue shooting memorial every time.  I want the image of a Synagogue to be of the Rabbi being armed.  If there is one thing we know about these types of mass shooters, they never attack defended locations.  Just the knowledge that the Rabbi can shoot back is likely to stop some nutjob from targeting that Synagogue in the first place.

Bernstein, who is Jewish, told Fox News he had gotten calls from rabbis around the country asking about his offer, but he said he couldn’t ship guns to them because they’re out of state.

That is a good sign.  Maybe the Tree of Life shooting was our Pulse moment.  Maybe it was enough to wake up some percentage of the Jews population that we need to be ready to defend ourselves, because it is in the minutes between when the shooting starts and the police respond to the 911 call, that the casualties happen.

I searched for “Dragon Arms Colorado” to check out this store’s website, and lo and behold, Mel Bernstein, the most armed man in America.

I suddenly have a much greater like for this guy than I had reading about this offer to local Rabbis.

I don’t know when I’ll next get a chance to go to Colorado, but I really want to see this place.