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Is Owning A Gun A Lack Of Hishtadlus?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Baron Olowski with our question and answer series. Is owning a gun…
  2. 0:32if you live in a dangerous place and you're worried for your life, uh having a…
  3. 1:02Yeah? So, uh so one day my nephew came in to check up on my mother.…
  4. 1:32And uh often times people have a gun end up innocent people get killed or it's…
  5. 2:03You know, and like five people pulled out guns. And they captured him without anyone getting…
  6. 2:34different honest citizen who had a gun. If nobody has a gun and this guy does…
  7. 3:04don't need it. You know? Um I think it was Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld during the…
  8. 3:36you know? Um Tom Lehrer, the professor of mathematics in Harvard University, who's best known for…
  9. 4:08>> So, yeah, sometimes proper precautions are necessary in a situation. So, a person who's on…
  10. 4:41make that determination. So, it depends where you are, who you are, and what the circumstances…

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