http://www.ourjewishcommunity.org/2009/09/08/gun-totin-rabbis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gun-totin-rabbis our jewish community online congregation Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ourjewishcommunity.org/2009/09/08/gun-totin-rabbis/comment-page-1/#comment-2975 Cynthia Tyler Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:25:00 +0000 http://www.ourjewishcommunity.org/?p=2469#comment-2975 Since I grew up with a military Dad, who shot on a Naval District Pistol Team, and I myself earned a Varsity letter in marksmanship on the university rifle team, and we had several cops in the family, I am probably a lot more comfortable with this scenario than many others would be. Rabbi Baum has a great point of view, that each should perform the task for which each is best trained. And I would rather have a professional, experienced policeman, or hey - a Mossad! - protecting me at services. But I applaud the very serious efforts of these men: 100 hours of training is enough for lessons to really start taking effect, and become invaluable in a crisis situation. And Rabbi-cop Moskowitz is a really cute guy! The question becomes, 'How much should we depend on others to defend us? At what expense? What are we doing to protect ourselves?' If I am not for me..... Since I grew up with a military Dad, who shot on
a Naval District Pistol Team, and I myself earned
a Varsity letter in marksmanship on the university
rifle team, and we had several cops in the family,
I am probably a lot more comfortable with this
scenario than many others would be. Rabbi Baum has
a great point of view, that each should perform the task for which each is best trained. And I would rather have a professional, experienced policeman, or hey – a Mossad! – protecting me at
services. But I applaud the very serious efforts
of these men: 100 hours of training is enough for
lessons to really start taking effect, and become
invaluable in a crisis situation. And Rabbi-cop Moskowitz is a really cute guy! The question becomes, ‘How much should we depend on others to
defend us? At what expense? What are we doing to
protect ourselves?’ If I am not for me…..

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