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I have a Taurus 9 mm with a 16 round magazine.  It's too big to carry concealed without quite a bit of effort.  I have another Taurus in 9 mm that is much smaller, and the aforesaid .357, which is bulky because of the cylinder.  I left the shotgun in Cincinnati.

yep if I was going to do conceal carry I'd go to a smaller Glock model but I have never felt the need to do it

Activist Muslims tend to be anti-Israeli, if that counts as being anti-Semitic.  It does get confusing at times.  Humans like binary scales.

It’s not really that confusing, maybe to simple minded folks. 

Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity or country. Anyone who has a problem with Judaism for no other reason than just because they don’t like the religion is a bigot.

Israel is an apartheid nation state that illegally interferes with the US government and US elections and has been carrying out a brutal, violent, repressive occupation of an entire people for 50+ years. It’s pretty easy to criticize Israel, and it’s morally right to do so. 

Well, technically, Arabs are Semitic, so to be antisemitic can mean anti-Arab.  There are Arabs in the Knesset of course.

The book "Paris 1919" is very interesting, I should read it again.  

I continue to be mystified by the fact that the majority of the Jewish people votes democratic  course that might change this year

How is this mystifying to you? The Democratic Party has long covered for and assisted Israeli atrocities. They Democrats are huge Israel boosters. Both sides are.

It’s not really that confusing, maybe to simple minded folks.

Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity or country. Anyone who has a problem with Judaism for no other reason than just because they don’t like the religion is a bigot.

Israel is an apartheid nation state that illegally interferes with the US government and US elections and has been carrying out a brutal, violent, repressive occupation of an entire people for 50+ years. It’s pretty easy to criticize Israel, and it’s morally right to do so.

You are mistaken.  Israel is not an apartheid state.  It's a representative democracy with free speech, rule of law, and a lively, argumentative political system. Israeli Muslims can and do serve in the Knesset and they serve in the IDF right alongside Jews.  Muslims in Israel are the freest, and have the most political rights, of any Muslims in the Middle East.  I'm not claiming that it is a utopia.  There aren't any of those and there never will be.

A guy at work I got to know claimed to be a Jewish atheist.  He went to Temple on Saturday.  He said it was Jewish, but not religious, at all.  It celebrated heritage, no religion, no war, etc.  I thought that would be hard to do.

I googled it and he was correct, a secular Jewish temple.

The wife's friends claim to be Jewish but don't participate at all and haven't for eons.  My buddy who owned the wine shop was Jewish and didn't attend anything but his wife converted and he would celebrate Hannukah etc.  He made those potato cake thingees in the back of his shop a few times, they are pretty tasty.

I still chat with him from time to time.  Our next door neighbors were Jewish but didn't attend anything, I don't think the wife converted.  He was my MD.  I never knew of a reason to be against Jews based on the ones I've known.  Of course, I'm pretty easy going, I even like some French.

If one is not going to practice, a double-action revolver is the best home-defense weapon.  It has the least probability of either an accidental discharge or a failure to fire, either from forgetting to release the safety or due to a jam.  Most, if not all, semi-autos are sensitive to ammunition incompatibility to some degree.  Nearly all of them work best with FMJ round-nose bullets, but FMJ round-nose bullets are not the best for home defense.  Most are less reliable when you start firing hollow-points.

With a DA revolver, it's point, pull the trigger through until it fires.  Repeat.  But you've usually only got six shots, so you need to make 'em count.