In the wake of the largest single slaughter of Jews on American soil, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Jews across Pittsburgh have embraced gun ownership to defend themselves. Anti-Semitic attacks across the country and notably in Western Europe have been on the uptick in recent years, both due to ethnic nativism and radical Islamic terrorism. It seems that Western Jews have finally taken up arms.

The Inquirer spoke to a Conservative Jew who went to his first gun-safety training at the Cherev Gidon gun facility, who said, “Now, we’re at war. We’re being targeted. We had a great run here in the United States. For 200 years we weren’t openly targeted as Jews. But it’s over, and now it’s time for us to arm ourselves.”